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FEBR.
27.
1666.
The
Rule
of
Faith
Iohanne
Tillotson
I.
S.
JOHN
TILLOTSON
EDW.
STILLINGFLEET
O.
Gellibrand
A
Rational
Account
of
the
Grounds
of
Protestant
Religion
.
Sure-footing
in
Christianity
Animadversions
on
some
Passages
self-evident
Principles
What
is
the
Rule
of
Faith
a
Rule
is
that
which
is
able
to
regulate
,
or
guide
him
that
useth
it
:
Latine
,
A
Rule
is
that
which
is
able
to
regulate
him
that
useth
it
he
is
one
that
hath
the
power
of
Legislation
.
in
the
common
sense
of
Mankind
,
is
the
same
with
Believing
.
intend
to
give
rigorous
School-definitions
of
either
this
or
the
former
word
an
Invasion
as
if
he
should
say
an
Invasion
:
Mr.
S.
Belief
)
is
the
same
with
Believing
in
the
common
sense
of
Mankind
Mr.
S.
He
will
see
I
take
my
Rise
at
the
meaning
of
the
words
this
known
,
I
establish
my
First
Principles
in
this
present
matter
,
to
be
these
,
A
Rule
is
a
Rule
,
Faith
is
Faith
.
self-evident
method
A
Rule
of
Faith
is
a
Rule
of
Faith
Oral
Tradition
is
Oral
Tradition
Oral
Tradition
is
the
Rule
of
Faith
,
Oral
Tradition
is
the
Rule
of
Faith
,
Rule
of
Faith
moral
Rule
intellectual
Rule
general
Rule
a
measure
,
by
the
agreement
or
disagreement
to
which
we
judg
of
all
things
of
that
kind
to
which
it
belongs
.
Divine
Faith
assent
to
a
truth
upon
Divine
revelation
.
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Christian
faith
What
is
the
Rule
of
Christian
faith
Rule
of
Faith
;
that
is
,
Rule
of
Faith
practical
Tradition
the
Rule
of
Faith
.
practical
Tradition
a
delivery
down
from
hand
to
hand
(
by
words
,
and
a
constant
course
of
frequent
and
visible
actions
,
conformable
to
those
words
)
of
the
sense
and
faith
of
Forefathers
.
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
de
facto
Consent
of
Authority
'T
is
certain
the
Apostles
taught
the
same
Doctrine
they
writ
.
As
for
the
Scriptures
(
ascertaining
their
letter
and
sense
,
which
is
done
by
Tradition
)
't
is
clear
they
are
of
incomparable
value
;
not
only
for
the
Divine
Doctrine
contained
in
them
,
but
also
for
many
particular
passages
,
whose
source
or
first
attestation
not
being
universal
,
nor
their
nature
much
practical
,
might
possibly
have
been
lost
in
their
conveyance
down
by
Tradition
.
Ink
variously
figured
in
a
Book
unsensed
Characters
,
waxen
natur'd
words
,
not
yet
sensed
,
nor
having
any
certain
Interpreter
,
but
fit
to
be
plaid
upon
diversly
by
quirks
of
wit
;
that
is
,
apt
to
blunder
and
confound
,
but
to
clear
little
or
nothing
.
That
the
Scriptures
have
preserv'd
many
particular
passages
,
which
because
their
source
or
first
attestation
was
not
universal
,
nor
their
nature
much
practical
,
might
possibly
have
been
lost
in
their
conveyance
down
by
Tradition
their
first
attestation
was
not
universal
,
nor
their
nature
much
practical
Tradition
established
,
the
Church
is
provided
of
a
certain
and
infallible
Rule
to
preserve
a
copy
of
the
Scriptures
Letter
truly
significative
of
Christs
sense
,
as
far
as
it
is
coincident
with
the
main
body
of
Christian
Doctrine
preached
at
first
sense
writ
in
mens
hearts
by
Tradition
,
can
easily
guide
them
to
correct
the
alteration
of
the
outward
letter
.
outward
letter
sense
written
in
their
hearts
giving
due
worship
to
Images
Council
of
Trent
truly
significative
of
the
sense
Tradition
established
,
the
Church
is
provided
of
a
certain
&
infallible
Rule
to
interpret
Scripture
letter
by
,
so
as
to
arrive
certainly
at
Christs
sense
,
as
far
as
the
letter
concerns
the
body
of
Christian
Doctrine
preached
at
first
,
or
points
requisite
to
Salvation
.
avoid
Calumny
with
the
Vulgar
every
silly
and
upstart
Heresie
fathers
it self
upon
it
waxen
natured
words
,
not
sensed
,
nor
having
any
certain
Interpreter
;
but
fit
to
be
play'd
upon
diversly
by
quirks
of
wit
;
that
is
,
apt
to
blunder
and
confound
,
but
to
clear
little
or
nothing
.
it
was
agreeable
rather
to
the
impertinency
of
the
Objection
than
the
dignity
of
the
Subject
.
Rule
of
Faith
.
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
faith
'T
is
certain
the
Apostles
taught
the
same
Doctrine
they
writ
Apology
for
Tradition
it
is
not
the
Catholick
position
,
that
all
its
Doctrines
are
not
contained
in
the
Scriptures
.
God
,
the
true
God
,
God
over
all
,
blessed
for
evermore
.
great
Wits
great
Wits
present
Pope
Traditionary
Church
Traditionary
Doctrine
great
Wits
oral
Tradition
practical
Tradition
hath
evinced
from
clear
reason
that
it
is
far
more
impossible
to
make
a
man
not
to
be
,
than
not
to
know
what
is
rivetted
into
his
soul
by
so
oft
repeated
sensations
,
and
that
it
exceeds
all
the
power
of
Nature
(
abstracting
from
the
cases
of
madness
,
and
violent
disease
)
to
blot
knowledg
thus
fixt
out
of
the
soul
of
one
single
Believer
that
sooner
may
all
mankind
perish
,
than
the
regulative
vertue
of
Tradition
miscarry
;
nay
,
sooner
may
the
sinews
of
entire
nature
by
overstraining
crack
,
and
she
lose
all
her
activity
and
motion
,
her self
;
than
one
single
part
of
that
innumerable
multitude
which
integrate
the
vast
testification
,
which
we
call
Tradition
,
can
possibly
be
violated
more
vigorous
causes
to
imprint
Christ's
Doctrine
at
first
,
and
recommend
it
to
the
next
Age
,
than
were
found
any
where
else
that
the
stream
of
Tradition
in
its
source
and
first
putting
into
motion
,
was
more
particularly
vigorous
there
than
in
any
other
See
;
and
that
the
chief
Pastor
of
that
See
hath
a
particular
Title
to
Infallibility
built
upon
Tradition
,
above
any
other
Pastor
whatsoever
;
not
to
dilate
on
the
particular
assistances
to
that
Bishop
,
springing
out
of
his
divinely
constituted
Office
Oral
Tradition
Rule
of
Faith
Congregation
general
Wh.
Exetasis
.
P.
they
contain
several
Propositions
manifestly
heretical
,
great
Wits
Rule
of
Faith
such
eminent
Wits
White
)
making
use
of
the
self-same
,
and
as
they
conceive
,
the
best
advantages
Rule
of
Faith
and
availing
themselves
the
best
they
can
by
acquired
skills
,
yet
differ
what
certainty
can
we
undertakingly
promise
to
weaker
heads
,
that
is
to
the
generality
de
facto
unsensed
Cha
:
racters
Ink
variously
figured
in
a
Book
true
Rule
of
Faith
,
the
living
voice
of
the
Church
Essential
.
Rule
of
Rule
of
Faith
Oral
Tradition
thus
saith
the
Scripture
the
voice
of
the
essential
Church
;
thus
it
hath
been
delivered
down
by
hand
to
us
,
from
our
Forefathers
.
Third
evidence
by
sense
written
in
mens
hearts
,
unsens'd
Characters
,
waxen
natur'd
words
,
fit
to
be
play'd
upon
diversly
by
quirks
of
wit
,
apt
to
blunder
and
confound
,
but
to
clear
little
or
nothing
a
little
Ink
variously
figured
in
a
Book
unmistakeable
,
indefectible
Oral
Tradition
Rule
of
Faith
Letter
Rule
been
preserved
entire
Spiritual
Causes
,
Men's
minds
,
the
noblest
pieces
in
Nature
Traditionary
Christians
Letter
Rule
That
the
Scriptures
are
the
Rule
of
Christian
Faith
Protestant
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
if
the
first
had
been
faultless
,
then
should
no
place
have
been
sought
for
a
second
.
S
▪
Chrysostom
,
(
Homil.
in
Matth.
That
Christ
left
nothing
in
writing
to
his
Apostles
;
but
in
stead
thereof
did
promise
to
bestow
upon
them
the
grace
of
his
holy
Spirit
,
saying
,
But
because
in
progress
of
time
there
were
many
grievous
miscarriages
both
in
matter
of
Opinion
,
and
also
of
Life
and
Manners
;
therefore
it
was
requisite
that
the
memory
of
this
Doctrine
should
be
preserved
by
writing
.
That
the
Apostles
and
their
Successors
went
not
with
Books
in
their
hands
to
preach
and
deliver
Christ's
Doctrine
,
but
words
in
their
mouths
;
and
that
primitive
antiquity
learned
their
faith
by
another
method
,
a
long
time
before
many
of
those
Books
were
universally
spread
among
the
vulgar
.
Rule
of
Faith
.
Rule
of
Faith
What
is
the
Rule
of
Faith
?
Rule
of
Faith
those
Laws
which
it
concerns
every
man
to
be
skilful
in
the
best
way
imaginable
,
to
convey
down
such
Laws
to
us
.
a
delivery
down
from
hand
to
hand
,
of
the
sense
and
faith
of
Fore-fathers
Rule
of
Faith
self-evident
Principle
Practical
Tradition
Science
of
Controversie
The
Consent
of
Authority
to
the
substance
of
his
foregoing
Discourses
.
that
is
Rule
of
Faith
it
must
be
plain
and
self-evident
to
all
,
as
to
its
existence
.
evidenceable
,
as
to
its
Ruling
power
,
that
men
be
capable
of
knowing
,
that
it
deserves
to
be
relied
on
as
a
Rule
.
that
is
apt
to
settle
,
and
justifie
undoubting
Persons
.
setling
undoubting
Persons
that
is
undoubting
Persons
apt
to
settle
undoubting
Persons
apt
to
settle
Persons
when
they
do
doubt
,
that
is
,
not
undoubting
Persons
justifying
undoubting
Persons
apt
to
satisfie
fully
the
most
Sceptical
Dissenters
,
and
Rational
Doubters
:
Rational
Doubters
the
most
Sceptical
Dissenter
Dissenter
Sceptical
the
most
Sceptical
Dissenter
most
Sceptical
apt
to
convince
the
most
obstinate
,
and
acute
Adversary
.
acute
Adversary
that
is
that
is
Rule
of
Faith
Properties
of
the
Rule
of
Faith
,
the
Rule
of
Faith
the
means
whereby
we
come
to
the
knowledge
of
Revealed
Truth
Another
(
viz.
&c.
)
is
,
That
it
be
apt
of
its
own
Nature
,
to
afford
the
greatest
true
and
rational
certainty
,
to
all
men
without
exception
to
whom
the
knowledg
of
it
shall
come
;
provided
they
be
furnish'd
with
the
faculty
of
Reason
,
and
have
their
minds
purified
from
all
Passion
and
Lust
,
which
do
often
hinder
the
most
sagacious
Persons
from
understanding
the
most
evident
and
manifest
Truths
.
the
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
upon
a
Church-account
apt
to
conquer
Obstinacy
certain
in
it self
absolutely
ascertainable
to
us
absolutely
ascertainable
to
us
with
respect
to
us
,
without
respect
to
us
to
us
Rule
of
Faith
two
Pretenders
the
Rule
of
Faith
,
Scripture
,
Oral
Tradition
Oral
Tradition
That
these
two
Properties
do
not
belong
to
Scripture
;
and
that
they
do
to
Oral
Tradition
.
That
we
cannot
by
the
Scriptures
mean
the
sense
of
them
,
but
the
Book
,
such
or
such
Characters
not
yet
sensed
,
or
interpreted
.
the
things
to
be
known
,
and
these
we
confess
are
the
very
points
of
Faith
,
of
which
the
Rule
of
Faith
is
to
ascertain
us
.
To
speak
to
them
in
their
own
language
,
who
say
is
their
Rule
,
we
must
premise
this
Note
,
that
they
cannot
mean
by
the
sense
of
it
,
that
is
,
the
things
to
be
known
;
for
those
,
they
confess
,
are
the
very
Points
of
Faith
,
of
which
the
Rule
of
Faith
is
to
ascertain
us
;
when
they
say
then
,
that
is
the
Rule
of
Faith
,
they
can
only
mean
by
not
yet
sensed
or
interpreted
,
but
as
yet
to
be
sensed
;
that
is
,
such
or
such
with
their
aptness
to
signifie
to
them
assuredly
God's
mind
,
or
ascertain
them
of
their
Faith
;
for
abstracting
from
the
sense
,
and
actual
signification
of
those
words
,
there
is
nothing
imaginable
left
but
those
sounds
,
with
their
aptness
to
signifie
it
.
perfect
Science
and
Demonstration
the
way
of
Science
is
to
proceed
from
one
piece
of
sense
to
another
.
these
Books
were
written
by
men
divinely
inspired
,
till
the
seeming
contradictions
in
those
Books
are
solved
;
which
to
do
,
is
one
of
the
most
difficult
tasks
in
the
world
,
they
cannot
be
concluded
to
be
of
God's
enditing
.
Rule
of
Faith
those
who
are
to
be
ruled
and
guided
by
the
Scriptures
letter
to
Faith
,
certain
of
the
true
sense
of
it
unsensed
letters
and
characters
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
that
is
unsensed
letters
and
characters
Rule
of
Faith
,
that
they
cannot
.
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
.
Rule
of
Faith
certain
knowledg
certain
sense
certain
knowledg
Rule
of
Faith
That
an
undoubted
Tradition
is
sufficient
evidence
of
the
Antiquity
and
Author
of
a
Book
,
that
is
't
is
most
't
is
most
manifest
that
it
can
:
William
the
Conqueror
curious
and
most
speculative
Searchers
,
but
by
so
deep
an
inspection
into
the
sense
of
Scripture
,
as
shall
discover
such
secrets
,
that
Philosophy
,
and
human
Industry
could
never
have
arrived
to
.
Whatever
ye
would
that
men
should
do
unto
you
,
that
do
ye
likewise
unto
them
,
that
is
by
so
deep
an
inspection
into
the
sense
of
Scripture
,
as
shall
discover
such
secrets
that
Philosophy
and
human
Industry
could
never
have
arrived
to
.
all
the
seeming
contradictions
of
Scripture
must
be
solved
,
before
we
can
out
of
the
bare
letter
conclude
the
Scripture
to
be
of
God's
enditing
;
to
solve
which
literally
,
plainly
,
and
satisfactorily
the
memory
of
so
many
particulars
,
which
made
them
clearer
to
those
of
the
Age
in
which
they
were
written
,
and
the
matter
known
,
must
needs
be
so
worn
out
by
tract
of
time
,
that
it
is
one
of
the
most
difficult
tasks
in
the
World
.
his
own
fourteen
Generations
oral
Tradition
Reason
conclude
it
to
be
of
God's
enditing
.
sacred
Instrument
of
our
Religion
how
many
ought
to
be
which
of
the
many
controverted
ones
may
be
securely
put
in
that
Catalogue
,
which
not
't
is
most
palpable
,
that
few
,
or
at
least
the
rude
vulgar
,
can
never
be
assured
of
it
.
That
the
custom
of
the
Latin
Church
doth
not
receive
it
among
the
Canonical
Scriptures
.
oral
Tradition
living
voice
of
the
present
Church
that
the
very
Original
,
or
a
perfectly
true
copy
of
these
Books
hath
been
preserved
.
it
is
manifestly
impossible
at
least
the
rudest
vulgar
that
those
Books
are
rightly
translated
,
can
they
be
assured
,
that
the
Transcribers
,
and
Printers
,
they
only
can
have
evidence
of
the
right
letter
of
Scripture
,
who
stood
at
their
elbows
attentively
watching
they
should
not
err
in
making
it
perfectly
like
a
former
Copy
;
and
even
then
,
why
might
they
not
mistrust
their
own
eyes
and
aptness
to
oversee
why
may
he
not
mistrust
his
own
eyes
mens
own
eyes
oral
and
practical
Tradition
extremities
of
Scepticism
might
hap
to
be
Knaves
Copy
perfectly
like
the
former
we
stood
at
his
elbow
,
attentively
watching
him
:
undisciplin'd
wit
not
acquainted
with
the
paths
of
Science
Satisfaction
is
to
be
given
to
every
one
according
to
his
capacity
;
it
is
sufficient
for
a
Child
to
believe
his
Parents
;
for
a
Clown
to
believe
his
Preacher
.
Rule
of
Faith
certain
of
the
true
sense
of
Scripture
.
The
numerous
Comments
upon
Scripture
There
are
infinite
disputes
about
the
sense
of
Scripture
,
even
in
most
concerning
Points
,
as
in
that
of
Christ's
Divinity
.
That
the
Son
is
of
the
same
substance
with
the
Father
That
they
pervert
the
Scriptures
,
to
strengthen
their
Heresie
from
thence
.
That
the
Scripture
is
clear
enough
,
but
the
corrupt
minds
of
Hereticks
will
not
see
what
is
there
contain'd
.
viz.
That
Protestants
cannot
be
certain
of
the
true
sense
of
it
:
Traditionary
Church
Protestants
?
They
viz.
The
efficacy
of
Gods
grace
,
the
Supremacy
of
the
infallibility
of
a
Pope
and
Council
by
immediate
assistance
of
the
Holy
Ghost
't
is
perfect
phrenzy
to
say
they
can
be
certain
of
the
true
sense
of
Scripture
.
so
far
as
it
concerns
the
main
body
of
Christian
Doctrine
,
That
as
it
is
impossible
that
Hereticks
should
agree
any
other
way
than
in
Faction
;
so
it
is
impossible
that
Catholicks
should
differ
in
points
of
Faith
.
hath
forsaken
a
Church
where
Vnity
was
impossible
,
and
betaken
himself
to
a
Church
where
Schism
is
impossible
.
That
Schism
is
impossible
in
their
Church
,
Who
is
so
blind
,
as
not
to
see
that
these
things
are
to
be
found
in
Scripture
by
a
sensible
,
common
,
and
discreet
reading
of
it
;
though
perhaps
by
a
rigorous
and
exact
balancing
of
every
particular
word
and
syllable
,
any
of
these
things
would
vanish
away
we
know
not
how
in
those
things
which
are
plainly
set
down
in
Scripture
,
we
may
find
all
those
things
in
which
Faith
and
Manners
of
life
are
comprehended
.
rigorous
balancing
of
every
word
and
syllable
vanish
away
we
know
not
how
sensibly
and
discreetly
Cressy
,
viz.
'T
is
impossible
to
put
fully
,
and
beyond
all
quarrel
,
the
same
sense
in
divers
words
.
sensible
,
common
,
discreet
a
rigorous
and
exact
balancing
of
every
particular
phrase
,
word
,
and
syllable
,
to
vanish
we
know
not
how
.
That
no
truth
can
be
conveyed
down
from
man
to
man
but
by
speech
;
and
speech
cannot
be
but
by
words
;
and
all
words
are
either
equivocal
in
themselves
,
or
liable
to
be
differently
understood
by
several
persons
.
That
such
is
the
frame
of
mans
mind
,
that
the
same
truths
may
be
differently
apprehended
and
understood
by
different
persons
.
That
Reason
and
Experience
shews
,
that
differences
will
arise
even
about
the
Writings
of
the
Fathers
,
and
any
thing
but
the
Testimony
of
the
present
Church
.
the
Writings
of
the
Fathers
that
Writing
present
infallible
Authority
oral
Tradition
Figurative
,
Mystical
some
certain
and
infallible
means
to
know
in
which
of
them
it
is
taken
,
which
can
be
known
only
by
revelation
.
by
History
,
by
the
Providence
of
God
,
by
Testimonies
of
Councils
and
Fathers
,
and
by
the
sufficient
clearness
of
Scripture
as
to
Fundamentals
;
He
because
few
are
skilled
in
History
,
and
they
that
are
not
,
cannot
safely
rely
upon
those
that
are
skill'd
,
unless
they
knew
certainly
that
the
Historians
whom
they
rely
on
had
secure
grounds
,
and
not
bare
hear-say
for
what
they
writ
,
and
that
they
were
not
contradicted
by
others
either
extant
,
or
perished
.
Julius
Caesar
William
the
Conqueror
had
secure
grounds
,
and
not
bare
hear-say
for
what
they
writ
:
And
that
they
were
not
contradicted
by
others
either
extant
or
perished
,
the
testimony
of
Preachers
or
Pastors
is
human
and
fallible
probable
,
may
be
sufficient
to
bring
our
understanding
to
an
infallible
act
of
Faith
,
if
such
a
conclusion
be
taken
Specificative
Reduplicative
,
as
it
is
a
conclusion
,
it
can
only
beget
a
probable
assent
had
secure
grounds
,
and
not
bare
hear-say
for
what
they
delivered
,
and
that
they
were
not
contradicted
by
any
of
those
that
are
dead
a
passage
That
the
common
course
of
human
Conversation
makes
it
a
madness
not
to
believe
great
multitudes
of
knowers
,
if
no
possible
considerations
can
awaken
in
our
reason
a
doubt
that
they
conspire
to
deceive
us
.
Nor
can
any
,
unless
their
brains
rove
wildly
,
or
be
unsetled
even
to
the
degree
of
madness
,
suspect
deceit
where
such
multitudes
agree
unanimously
in
a
matter
of
Fact
.
madness
not
to
believe
multitudes
where
no
possible
consideration
can
awaken
in
our
reason
a
doubt
that
they
have
conspired
to
deceive
us
;
and
mens
brains
must
rove
wildly
and
be
unsetled
even
to
the
degree
of
phrenzy
,
who
suspect
deceit
where
such
multitudes
unanimously
agree
in
a
matter
of
Fact
.
Providence
of
God
but
by
the
Letter
of
Scripture
certain
,
before
we
mention
the
Church
,
or
Gods
assistance
to
her
.
Councils
and
Fathers
decided
by
words
without
words
silent
Meetings
clearness
of
Scripture
as
to
Fundamentals
,
a
certain
Catalogue
of
Fundamentals
was
never
given
and
agreed
to
by
sufficient
Authority
,
and
yet
without
this
all
goes
to
wrack
.
Roman
Catechism
Council
of
Trent
viz.
That
the
Apostles
having
received
a
command
to
preach
the
Gospel
to
every
creature
,
thought
fit
to
compose
a
form
of
Christian
Faith
,
namely
to
this
end
,
that
they
might
all
think
and
speak
the
same
things
,
and
that
there
might
be
no
Schisms
among
those
whom
they
had
called
to
the
unity
of
Faith
,
but
that
they
might
all
be
perfect
in
the
same
sense
,
and
the
same
opinion
:
And
this
Profession
of
the
Christian
Faith
and
Hope
,
so
fram'd
by
them
,
the
Apostles
called
the
Symbole
or
Creed
.
Canting
demand
Catalogue
of
Fundamentals
manifestly
impossible
Is
it
a
Fundamental
that
Christ
is
God
?
Whether
this
be
clearer
in
Scripture
,
than
that
Gad
hath
hands
,
feet
,
&
c
God
hath
hands
and
feet
Christ
is
the
Vine
the
Door
he
percheth
upon
the
specifical
nature
of
things
,
S.
)
Origen
the
most
fundamental
Point
is
not
clearer
in
Scripture
,
than
that
God
hath
hands
,
feet
,
&
c
he
was
a
fool
,
and
did
foolishly
understand
those
things
which
the
Divine
Scriptures
speak
by
way
of
Condescension
.
several
Professions
all
pretend
to
Scripture
,
persecute
one
another
Rule
of
Faith
able
to
satisfie
Sceptical
dissenters
,
and
Rational
doubters
,
because
nothing
under
a
demonstration
can
satisfie
such
persons
so
well
concerning
the
incorruptedness
of
Originals
,
the
faithfulness
of
Translations
,
but
that
searching
and
sincere
Wits
may
still
maintain
their
ground
of
suspence
with
A
Might
it
not
be
otherwise
?
this
ground
of
suspence
disputative
Scholars
do
find
means
daily
to
explicate
the
plainest
words
of
an
Authour
to
a
quitc
different
sense
:
a
searching
and
sincere
Wit
at
least
maintain
his
ground
of
suspence
with
A
Might
it
not
be
otherwise
?
that
is
That
in
matters
of
Religion
a
man
cannot
be
reasonably
satisfy'd
with
any
thing
less
than
that
infallible
assurance
which
is
wrought
by
Demonstration
,
his
Brethren
of
the
Tradition
,
viz.
I.
B.
Rule
of
Faith
.
He
third
Dialogue
perhaps
a
Protestant
would
say
that
all
was
but
probability
and
and
likelyhood
,
and
therefore
to
hazard
a
mans
Estate
upon
Peradventures
,
were
something
hard
,
and
not
very
rationally
done
:
What
security
do
your
Merchants
,
your
States-men
,
your
Souldiers
,
those
that
go
to
Law
,
nay
,
even
those
that
Till
your
grounds
and
work
for
their
livings
,
what
security
,
I
say
,
do
all
these
go
upon
?
Is
it
greater
than
the
security
which
these
grounds
afford
?
surely
no.
And
yet
no
man
esteems
them
foolish
.
All
humane
Affairs
are
hazardous
,
and
have
some
adventure
in
them
.
And
therefore
who
requires
evident
certainty
only
in
matters
of
Religion
,
discovers
in
himself
a
less
mind
to
the
Goods
promised
in
the
next
life
,
than
to
these
which
he
seeks
here
in
this
World
upon
weaker
assurance
.
Howsoever
,
the
greatest
evidence
that
can
be
to
him
that
is
not
capable
of
convincing
Demonstrations
(
which
the
greatest
part
of
Mankind
fall
short
of
)
is
but
conjectural
.
hazardous
,
and
have
some
adventure
in
them
,
Rule
of
Faith
the
greatest
part
of
Mankind
not
capable
of
convincing
Demonstrations
Do
but
consider
how
unequal
and
unjust
a
condition
it
is
,
that
the
claim
of
the
present
Church
shall
not
be
heard
,
unless
she
can
confute
all
the
Peradventures
that
Wit
may
invent
,
and
solve
all
the
Arguments
which
the
infinite
variety
of
time
,
place
,
and
occasions
may
have
given
way
unto
;
and
then
you
will
see
how
unreasonable
an
Adversary
he
is
,
who
will
not
be
content
with
any
satisfaction
,
but
such
as
mans
nature
scarcely
affords
.
claim
be
heard
,
unless
can
confute
might
it
not
be
otherwise
]
that
Wit
may
invent
?
how
unreasonable
an
Adversary
who
will
not
be
content
with
any
satisfaction
,
but
such
as
Rushworth
)
mans
nature
scarcely
affords
.
That
it
shall
suffice
for
present
to
determine
,
that
the
Wisdom
of
the
Creator
hath
afforded
us
such
an
assurance
,
especially
of
Truths
necessary
to
Salvation
,
as
is
sutable
to
our
nature
,
and
best
fitted
for
the
safe
conduct
of
our
lives
in
Moral
and
Religious
Affairs
:
That
such
Teachers
,
as
approached
nearest
to
the
fountain
of
Truth
,
Christ
and
his
Apostles
,
had
means
of
informing
themselves
in
Apostolical
Tradition
incomparably
beyond
us
.
That
the
Church
does
not
expect
to
be
taught
by
God
immediately
by
new
Revelations
,
but
makes
use
of
several
means
,
as
being
govern'd
not
by
Apostles
,
but
by
ordinary
Pastors
and
Teachers
.
That
these
Pastors
in
making
use
of
these
several
means
of
Decision
,
proceed
not
as
the
Apostles
did
,
with
a
peculiar
infallible
direction
of
the
Holy
Spirit
,
but
with
a
prudential
collection
not
always
necessary
.
That
to
the
Apostles
who
were
the
first
Masters
of
Evangelical
Faith
,
and
founders
of
the
Church
,
such
an
infallible
certitude
of
means
was
necessary
:
not
so
now
to
the
Church
,
That
an
infallible
certitude
of
means
is
not
now
necessary
to
the
Church
,
a
searching
Wit
may
maintain
his
ground
of
suspence
,
A
Might
it
not
be
otherwise
?
truth
and
our
obligation
to
believe
it
,
is
in
an
higher
degree
in
Scripture
,
than
in
the
Decisions
of
the
Church
,
as
Rule
of
Faith
famous
passage
unfortunateness
(
to
him
word
Infallibility
That
he
could
find
no
such
word
in
any
Council
;
That
no
necessity
appear'd
to
him
that
either
he
or
any
other
Protestant
should
ever
have
heard
that
word
nam'd
,
and
much
less
press'd
with
so
much
earnestness
as
of
late
it
has
generally
been
in
Disputations
and
Books
of
Controversie
Chillingworth
combats
this
word
with
too
to
great
success
,
if
this
word
were
once
forgotten
or
but
laid
by
,
Chillingworth's
Arguments
would
lose
the
greatest
part
of
their
strength
that
if
this
word
were
confin'd
to
the
Schools
where
it
was
bred
,
there
would
be
still
no
inconvenience
:
that
since
by
manifest
experience
the
English
Protetestants
think
themselves
so
secure
,
when
they
have
leave
to
stand
or
fall
by
that
word
,
and
in
very
deed
have
so
much
to
say
for
themselves
when
they
are
pressed
unnecessarily
with
it
:
Since
likewise
it
is
a
word
capable
of
so
high
a
sense
that
we
cannot
devise
one
more
full
and
proper
to
attribute
to
God
himself
,
blamed
,
if
such
Reasons
move
him
to
wish
that
the
Protestants
may
never
be
invited
to
combat
the
Authority
of
the
Church
under
that
Notion
.
Learned
Author
several
degrees
of
Infallibility
if
God
have
furnished
his
divine
and
supernatural
Truth
,
with
evidence
equal
to
this
,
that
the
Sun
will
shine
to
morrow
,
or
that
there
will
be
a
Spring
and
Harvest
next
year
,
we
are
infinitely
obliged
to
bless
his
Providence
,
and
justly
condemned
,
if
we
refuse
to
believe
the
least
of
such
Truths
,
as
shewing
less
affection
to
save
our
souls
,
than
the
dull
Plow-men
to
sow
their
Corn
,
who
certainly
have
far
less
evidence
for
their
Harvest
,
than
Catholiques
for
their
Faith
they
insist
not
peevishly
upon
every
capricious
Objection
,
nor
exact
an
infallible
security
of
a
plentiful
reaping
next
Summer
,
but
notwithstanding
all
difficulties
and
contingencies
proceed
chearfully
in
their
painful
Husbandry
.
exacting
infallible
security
insisting
upon
every
capricious
Objection
Might
it
not
be
otherwise
in
a
severe
acception
of
the
word
rigorously
infallible
absolutely
impossible
imply
a
flat
contradiction
all
possibility
all
possibility
an
Authority
of
obliging
all
Christians
to
submit
to
her
Decisions
,
viz.
[
Against
this
word
of
Infallibility
Mr.
's
Book
especially
combats
,
and
this
with
too
too
great
success
Success
,
I
mean
,
not
against
the
Church
,
but
against
his
own
Soul
,
and
the
Souls
of
his
Fellow-English
Protestants
,
had
fought
against
him
with
too
too
great
success
Success
,
I
mean
,
not
against
but
against
his
own
life
,
and
the
lives
of
his
followers
.
That
such
a
certainty
as
makes
the
cause
always
work
the
same
effect
,
though
it
take
not
away
the
absolute
possibility
of
working
otherwise
,
ought
absolutely
to
be
reckoned
in
the
degree
of
true
certainty
undervalue
it
Moral
matters
,
and
such
as
are
subject
to
humane
action
,
we
must
expect
such
assurance
as
humane
actions
bear
.
If
for
the
government
of
your
spiritual
life
you
have
as
much
as
for
the
management
of
your
natural
and
civil
life
,
what
can
you
expect
more
?
Two
or
three
witnesses
of
men
beyond
exception
will
cast
a
man
out
of
not
only
his
lands
,
but
life
and
all
.
He
that
among
Merchants
will
not
adventure
,
where
there
is
a
Hundred
to
one
of
gaining
,
will
be
accounted
a
silly
Factor
.
And
among
Souldiers
,
he
that
will
fear
danger
where
but
one
of
a
Hundred
is
slain
,
shall
not
escape
the
stain
of
Cowardize
.
What
then
shall
we
expect
in
Religion
,
but
to
see
a
main
advantage
on
the
one
side
which
we
may
rest
our selves
on
?
and
for
the
rest
,
remember
we
are
men
subject
to
chance
and
mutability
,
and
thank
God
he
hath
given
us
that
assurance
in
a
supernatural
way
,
which
we
are
contented
withall
in
our
civil
ventures
and
possessions
,
which
nevertheless
God
knoweth
we
often
love
better
,
and
would
hazard
less
than
the
unknown
good
of
the
life
to
come
.
If
God
Almighty
hath
in
all
sorts
and
manners
provided
his
Church
that
she
may
enlighten
every
man
in
his
way
,
that
goeth
the
way
of
a
man
,
then
let
every
man
consider
which
is
the
sit
way
for
himself
,
and
what
in
other
matters
of
that
way
he
accounteth
evidence
.
And
if
there
be
no
interest
in
his
Soul
to
make
him
loth
to
believe
,
what
in
another
matter
of
the
like
nature
he
doth
not
stick
at
,
or
heavy
to
practise
what
he
sees
clearly
enough
,
I
fear
not
his
choice
.
Besides
this
,
he
must
have
this
care
;
that
he
seek
what
the
nature
of
the
subject
can
yield
,
and
not
as
those
Physitians
,
who
when
they
have
promised
no
less
than
Immortality
,
can
at
last
only
reach
to
some
conservation
of
health
or
youth
in
some
small
degree
:
So
I
could
wish
the
Author
to
well
assure
himself
first
,
that
there
is
possible
an
Infallibility
,
before
he
be
too
earnest
to
be
contented
with
nothing
less
;
for
what
if
humane
nature
should
not
be
capable
of
so
great
a
good
?
Would
he
therefore
think
it
fitting
to
live
without
any
Religion
,
because
he
could
not
get
such
a
one
as
himself
desired
,
though
with
more
than
a
mans
wish
?
Were
it
not
rational
to
see
,
whether
among
Religions
some
one
have
not
such
notable
advantages
over
the
rest
,
as
in
reason
it
might
seem
humane
nature
might
be
contented
withall
?
Let
him
cast
his
account
with
the
dearest
things
he
hath
,
his
own
or
friends
lives
,
his
estate
,
his
hope
of
posterity
,
and
see
upon
what
terms
of
advantage
he
is
ready
to
venture
all
these
;
and
then
return
to
Religion
,
and
see
whether
,
if
he
do
not
venture
his
soul
upon
the
like
,
it
be
truly
reason
,
or
some
other
not
confessed
motive
,
which
withdraws
him
.
For
my
own
part
,
as
I
doubt
not
of
an
Infallibility
,
so
I
doubt
not
but
setting
that
aside
,
there
be
those
Excellencies
found
on
the
Catholick
party
,
which
may
force
a
man
to
prefer
it
,
and
to
venture
all
he
hath
upon
it
,
before
all
other
Religions
and
Sects
in
the
World
.
Why
then
may
not
one
who
after
long
searching
findeth
no
Infallibility
,
rest
himself
on
the
like
,
supposing
mans
nature
affords
no
better
?
a
civil
piece
of
Atheistry
be
smart
in
opposition
to
so
damnable
and
fundamental
an
Error
.
Third
Discourse
that
the
Scripture
is
not
convictive
of
the
most
obstinate
and
acute
Adversaries
.
the
most
acute
Adversary
Book
is
Gods
Word
many
strange
Absurdities
and
Heresies
in
the
open
letter
as
it
lies
,
as
that
God
hath
hands
and
feet
,
of
the
contradictions
in
it
certain
of
the
Truth
of
the
letter
in
any
particular
Text
,
that
it
was
not
foisted
in
,
or
some
way
altered
in
its
significativeness
;
and
if
it
be
a
negative
proposition
,
that
the
particle
[
not
]
was
not
inserted
,
if
affirmative
,
not
left
out
.
our
demonstration
for
it
Scriptures
letter
so
far
as
it
is
coincident
with
the
main
body
of
Christian
Doctrine
Fourth
Discourse
is
not
certain
in
it self
not
ascertained
to
us
Not
certain
,
materially
considered
as
consisting
of
such
and
such
Characters
,
because
Books
are
liable
to
be
burnt
,
torn
blotted
,
worn
out
.
Though
it
may
seem
a
remote
and
impertinent
Exception
,
yet
to
one
who
considers
the
wise
dispositions
of
Divine
Providence
,
it
will
deserve
a
deep
consideration
;
because
the
salvation
of
Mankind
being
the
end
of
Gods
making
nature
,
the
means
to
it
should
be
more
setled
,
strong
,
and
unalterable
,
than
any
other
piece
of
nature
whatever
.
in
complexion
with
the
causes
,
actually
laid
in
the
World
to
preserve
them
entire
;
because
either
those
causes
are
material
,
and
then
they
are
also
liable
to
continual
alterations
;
or
spiritual
,
that
is
,
the
minds
of
men
,
and
from
these
we
may
with
good
reason
hope
for
a
greater
degree
of
constancy
,
than
from
any
other
piece
of
nature
That
they
are
perfectly
unalterable
from
their
nature
,
and
unerrable
,
if
due
circumstances
be
observed
,
that
is
,
if
due
proposals
be
made
to
beget
certain
knowledg
,
and
due
care
used
to
attend
to
such
proposals
.
due
proposals
due
care
spiritual
cause
(
the
mind
of
man
So
many
actions
are
to
be
done
,
which
are
compounded
and
made
up
of
an
innumerable
multitude
of
several
particularities
to
be
observed
,
every
of
which
may
be
mistaken
apart
,
each
being
a
distinct
little
action
in
its
single
self
,
such
as
is
the
transcribing
of
a
whole
Book
,
consisting
of
such
Myriads
of
words
,
single
letters
,
and
tittles
or
stops
;
and
the
several
actions
of
writing
over
each
of
these
so
short
and
cursory
,
that
it
prevents
diligence
,
and
exceeds
humane
care
,
to
keep
awake
and
apply
distinct
attentions
to
every
of
these
distinct
actions
.
supposing
an
Original
Copy
of
Christs
words
,
written
by
one
of
the
Evangelists
in
the
same
language
,
let
him
have
set
down
every
word
and
syllable
,
yet
men
conversant
in
noting
the
changes
of
meanings
in
words
will
tell
us
,
that
divers
accents
in
the
pronunciation
of
them
,
the
turning
of
the
speakers
head
or
body
this
way
or
that
way
,
&c.
may
so
change
the
sense
of
the
words
,
that
they
will
seem
quite
different
in
writing
from
what
they
were
in
speaking
.
Traditionary
Accents
,
Nods
Oral
Tradition
prevent
diligence
,
and
exceed
humane
care
,
to
keep
awake
and
apply
distinct
attentions
to
the
distinct
actions
of
speaking
,
as
of
writing
.
Orally
delivered
Scripture
formally
considered
as
to
its
significativeness
,
is
also
uncertain
.
Because
of
the
uncertainty
of
the
letter
.
Because
the
certain
sense
of
it
is
not
to
be
arrived
to
by
the
Vulgar
,
who
are
destitute
of
Languages
and
Arts.
Fourth
Discourse
for
the
satisfaction
of
indifferent
men
,
that
have
been
brought
up
in
this
verbal
and
apparent
respect
of
the
Scripture
,
God
is
not
mocked
That
the
Properties
of
a
Rule
of
Faith
belong
to
Oral
Tradition
.
Oral
Practical
Tradition
they
are
taught
their
own
and
others
names
,
to
write
,
and
read
,
and
exercise
their
Trades
first
hear
sounds
,
afterwards
by
degrees
get
dim
notions
of
God
,
Christ
,
Saviour
,
Heaven
,
Hell
,
Vertue
,
Vice
,
and
by
degrees
practise
what
they
have
heard
;
they
are
shewn
to
say
Grace
,
and
their
Prayers
,
to
hold
up
their
hands
,
or
perhaps
eyes
,
and
to
kneel
,
and
other
postures
.
Creed
,
Ten
Commandments
,
and
Sacraments
,
some
common
Forms
of
Prayer
,
and
other
practises
of
Christianity
,
and
are
directed
to
order
their
lives
accordingly
,
by
the
actions
and
carriage
of
the
elder
faithful
this
goes
on
by
insensible
degrees
,
not
by
leaps
,
from
a
Hundred
years
to
a
Hundred
,
but
from
Month
to
Month
,
and
even
less
.
as
the
Creed
Ten
Commandments
That
cannot
be
a
Tradition
,
which
is
delivered
in
set-words
.
Rule
of
Faith
That
it
be
plain
and
intelligible
,
and
that
it
be
sufficiently
certain
.
two
Considerations
.
First
Rule
of
Faith
.
Secondly
Rule
of
Faith
.
Rule
of
Faith
.
Rule
of
Faith
.
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
.
That
Tradition
hath
for
its
Basis
mans
nature
not
according
to
his
Intellectuals
,
which
do
but
darkly
grope
in
the
pursuit
of
Science
,
Rule
of
Faith
She
is
like
a
dim-sighted
man
,
who
used
his
Reason
to
find
a
trusty
Friend
to
lead
him
in
the
twilight
,
and
then
relied
on
his
guidance
rationally
without
using
his
own
Reason
at
all
about
the
Way
it self
.
grope
darkly
in
the
pursuit
of
Science
,
see
clearly
That
private
Reason
is
apparently
a
most
fallible
guide
betake
himself
to
the
casual
conduct
of
blind
,
humane
,
natural
Reason
,
a
guide
that
two
persons
cannot
possibly
follow
together
,
because
no
two
persons
(
that
ever
followed
any
other
guide
beside
Authority
)
did
or
could
think
all
things
to
be
reasonable
that
all
others
thought
so
such
a
guide
that
as
long
as
he
continues
in
that
office
,
there
cannot
possibly
be
any
Church
any
where
:
which
is
an
infallible
eviction
that
this
is
an
imaginary
seducing
guide
,
since
it
is
impossible
that
that
should
be
a
guide
appointed
for
any
Christian
,
which
neither
Christ
nor
his
Apostles
,
nor
any
of
their
Followers
ever
mentioned
,
yea
,
which
formally
destroys
one
of
our
twelve
Articles
of
the
Apostles
Creed
,
I
believe
the
Holy
Catholick
Church
.
clearly
and
infallibly
evince
blind
and
fallible
guide
a
blind
side
universally
blind
That
this
hood-wink't
guide
(
enquiring
into
Scripture
,
and
searching
after
Tradition
)
may
possibly
stumble
upon
the
way
to
Vnity
and
Truth
,
that
is
,
the
true
Catholick
Church
.
hood-wink't
guide
Rule
of
Faith
hood-wink't
guide
he
might
possibly
stumble
in
the
way
of
perfect
Science
Rule
of
Faith
humane
Reason
stark
blind
Rule
of
Faith
possibility
of
stumbling
it
is
impossible
but
that
he
with
his
blind
guide
should
fall
into
the
Pit
.
Wit
and
Judgment
of
Catholicks
is
to
renounce
their
own
Judgment
,
and
depose
their
own
Wit.
Rule
of
Faith
.
Eight
Mines
lays
to
blow
up
my
Lords
Dissuasive
against
Popery
,
That
the
method
he
takes
in
dissuading
cannot
be
held
in
reason
to
have
power
to
dissuade
,
unless
it
be
proper
to
that
effect
,
that
is
,
not
common
to
that
effect
and
a
contrary
one
.
Now
,
that
being
most
evidently
no
method
or
way
to
such
an
effect
which
many
follow
and
take
,
yet
arrive
not
at
that
effect
,
't
is
plain
to
common
sense
,
that
my
Lord
of
miscalls
his
Book
A
Dissuasive
,
and
that
it
can
have
in
it
no
power
of
moving
the
understanding
one
way
or
other
,
unless
he
can
first
vouch
some
particularity
in
the
method
he
takes
,
above
what
's
in
others
in
which
we
experience
miscarriage
,
most
evidently
no
way
to
an
effect
which
many
follow
and
take
,
yet
arrive
not
at
that
effect
't
is
plain
to
common
sense
can
have
in
them
no
power
of
moving
the
understanding
one
way
or
other
,
unless
he
can
vouch
some
particularity
above
what
is
in
which
we
experience
miscarriage
Charles
Thynne
Quadrature
of
the
Circle
he
must
vouch
some
particularity
Charles
Thynne
Self-evident
Principle
à
priori
Self-evident
Principle
Self-evident
Principle
a
Priori
That
Christian
Doctrine
was
at
first
unanimously
setled
by
the
Apostles
,
in
the
hearts
of
the
faithful
dispersed
in
great
multitudes
over
several
parts
of
the
World
.
That
this
Doctrine
was
firmly
believed
by
all
those
faithful
to
be
the
way
to
Heaven
,
and
the
contradicting
or
deserting
it
,
to
be
the
way
to
damnation
;
so
that
the
greatest
hopes
and
fears
imaginable
were
by
engaging
the
Divine
Authority
strongly
applied
to
the
minds
of
the
first
Believers
,
encouraging
them
to
the
adhering
to
that
Doctrine
,
and
deterring
them
from
relinquishing
it
;
and
indeed
infinitely
greater
than
any
other
whatever
,
springing
from
any
temporal
consideration
:
and
that
this
was
in
all
Ages
the
perswasion
of
the
faithful
.
That
hopes
of
good
and
fears
of
harms
strongly
applied
are
the
causes
of
actual
will
.
That
the
thing
was
feasible
or
within
their
power
;
that
what
they
were
bred
to
was
knowable
by
them
.
This
put
,
it
follows
as
certainly
that
a
great
number
or
body
of
the
first
Believers
and
after
faithful
in
each
Age
,
that
is
,
from
Age
to
Age
would
continue
to
hold
themselves
and
teach
their
Children
as
themselves
had
been
taught
,
that
is
,
would
follow
and
stick
to
Tradition
,
as
it
doth
,
that
a
cause
put
actually
causing
produceth
its
effect
.
That
the
greatest
hopes
and
fears
are
strongly
applied
to
the
minds
of
all
Christians
;
and
that
those
hopes
and
fears
strongly
applied
are
the
cause
of
actual
will
to
adhere
constantly
to
Christ's
Doctrine
:
a
cause
put
actually
causing
produceth
its
effect
,
de
facto
Heretick
.
Heresie
renouncing
of
Tradition
That
the
first
Renouncers
of
Tradition
must
have
been
true
Believers
or
holders
of
it
,
ere
they
renounced
it
all
the
faithful
actually
causing
the
proper
and
necessary
effect
of
these
causes
,
that
is
That
it
exceeds
all
the
power
of
nature
(
abstracting
from
the
causes
of
madness
and
violent
disease
)
to
blot
the
knowledges
of
this
Doctrine
out
of
the
soul
of
one
single
Believer
.
since
no
man
can
hold
contrary
to
his
knowledg
,
nor
doubt
of
what
he
holds
,
nor
change
and
innovate
without
knowing
he
doth
so
,
it
is
a
manifest
impossibility
a
whole
Age
should
fall
into
an
absurdity
so
inconsistent
with
the
nature
of
one
single
man
.
it
is
perhaps
impossible
for
one
single
man
to
attempt
to
deceive
posterity
Sooner
may
the
sinews
of
entire
nature
by
overstraining
crack
,
and
she
lose
all
her
activity
and
motion
,
that
is
,
her self
,
than
one
single
part
of
that
innumerable
multitude
which
integrate
that
vast
testification
which
we
call
Tradition
can
possibly
be
violated
.
his
particular
Title
to
Infallibility
built
upon
Tradition
,
turned
Arian
Arianism
was
establish't
by
the
Synod
of
Ariminum
,
almost
all
the
Churches
in
the
whole
World
under
the
names
of
Peace
and
of
the
Emperour
,
were
polluted
by
Communion
with
the
Arians
.
under
the
Emperour
being
Consuls
)
Infidelity
was
subscribed
under
the
names
of
Vnity
and
Faith
.
that
the
whole
World
groaned
and
wondered
to
see
it self
turned
Arian
.
the
Synod
of
which
consisted
of
above
Three
hundred
Bishops
,
received
Eight
Arian
Bishops
whom
they
might
have
cast
out
without
any
great
loss
to
the
Church
;
I
wonder
then
how
some
,
and
those
the
followers
of
the
Nicene
Faith
can
think
that
three
Confessors
(
viz.
ought
not
to
do
that
in
case
of
necessity
for
the
good
and
safety
of
the
whole
World
,
which
so
many
and
such
excellent
Persons
did
voluntarily
.
was
at
first
but
one
spark
,
but
because
it
was
not
presently
extinguish't
it
broke
out
into
a
flame
which
devoured
the
whole
World
.
Gregory
Nazianzen
the
Arian
Heresie
seized
upon
the
greatest
part
of
the
Church
.
Where
are
those
that
define
the
Church
by
multitude
,
and
despise
the
little
Flock
,
Joh.
Abbas
almost
the
whole
World
was
run
after
into
Error
the
generality
of
Christians
did
firmly
adhere
to
Tradition
generality
of
Christians
Nine
hundred
a
Priori
a
Priori
It
is
not
to
be
expected
but
that
some
contingencies
should
have
place
,
where
an
whole
Species
in
a
manner
is
to
be
wrought
upon
;
it
sufficeth
that
the
causes
to
preserve
Faith
indeficiently
entire
are
as
efficacious
as
those
which
are
laid
for
the
preservation
of
Mankind
,
the
vertue
of
Faith
not
being
to
continue
longer
than
Mankind
its
only
subject
does
;
and
they
will
easily
appear
as
efficacious
as
the
other
,
if
we
consider
the
strength
of
those
causes
before
explicated
,
and
reflect
that
they
are
effectively
powerful
to
make
multitudes
daily
debar
themselves
of
those
pleasures
which
are
the
causes
of
Mankinds
propagation
;
and
if
we
look
into
History
for
experience
of
what
hath
passed
in
the
World
since
the
propagating
of
Christianity
,
we
shall
find
more
particulars
failing
in
propagating
their
kind
,
than
their
Faith
.
a
cause
put
actually
causing
cannot
but
produce
its
effect
.
that
the
causes
to
preserve
Faith
indeficiently
entire
,
are
as
efficacious
as
those
which
are
laid
for
the
propagation
of
Mankind
.
effectively
powerful
to
make
multitudes
daily
debar
themselves
of
those
pleasur●s
which
are
the
causes
of
Mankinds
propagation
That
if
we
look
into
Histories
for
experience
of
what
hath
past
in
the
World
since
the
first
planting
of
Christianity
,
we
shall
find
far
more
particulars
failing
in
propagating
their
kind
,
than
their
Faith
,
Arguments
of
hope
and
fear
Poland
,
Hungary
Germany's
,
France
Brittain
,
Denmark
,
Sweden
Pride
,
Ambition
,
Lust
the
efficacy
of
the
causes
to
preserve
Faith
indeficiently
entire
in
any
?
Good
is
the
proper
object
of
the
will
,
good
propos'd
makes
the
will
to
desire
that
good
,
and
consequently
the
known
means
to
obtain
it
:
Now
infinite
goods
and
harms
sufficiently
proposed
are
of
their
own
nature
incomparably
more
powerful
causes
to
carry
the
will
than
temporal
ones
.
Since
then
,
when
two
causes
are
counterpoised
,
the
lesser
when
it
comes
to
execution
is
no
cause
as
to
the
substance
of
that
effect
,
it
follows
that
there
is
no
cause
to
move
the
wills
of
a
World
of
Believers
to
be
willing
to
do
that
which
they
judge
would
lose
themselves
and
their
Posterity
infinite
goods
,
and
bring
them
infinite
harms
,
in
case
a
sufficient
Proposal
or
Application
be
not
wanting
,
Christianity
urged
to
execution
,
gives
its
followers
a
new
life
and
a
new
nature
,
than
which
a
nearer
Application
cannot
be
imagined
.
That
the
substance
of
Faith
comes
clad
in
such
plain
matters
of
Fact
,
that
the
most
stupid
man
living
cannot
possibly
be
ignorant
of
it
.
That
when
for
the
time
they
ought
to
be
Teachers
of
others
,
they
had
need
that
one
should
teach
them
again
which
be
the
first
Principles
of
the
Oracles
of
God
.
That
the
Primitive
Churches
were
tainted
with
many
gross
Errors
whil'st
the
Apostles
were
alive
,
and
the
blood
of
Christ
yet
warm
in
he
hath
endeavoured
to
demonstrate
the
indefectibleness
of
Tradition
as
the
proper
and
necessary
effect
of
those
causes
which
preserve
and
continue
Tradition
on
foot
That
they
are
Hopes
and
Fears
strongly
applied
.
necessary
effect
necessary
cause
that
they
are
the
causes
of
actual
will
causes
of
actual
will
that
is
feel
heat
,
cold
,
pain
,
pleasure
,
or
any
other
material
quality
That
Tradition
hath
for
its
Basis
the
best
Nature
in
the
Vniverse
,
that
is
,
Mans
;
Not
according
to
his
Moral
part
,
defectible
by
reason
of
Original
Corruption
;
nor
yet
his
Intellectuals
,
darkly
groping
in
the
pursuit
of
Science
,
But
according
to
those
Faculties
in
him
perfectly
and
necessarily
subject
to
the
operations
and
strokes
of
Nature
,
that
is
,
his
Eyes
,
Ears
;
Handling
,
and
the
direct
impressions
of
knowledg
,
as
naturally
and
necessarily
issuing
from
the
affecting
those
senses
,
as
it
is
to
feel
heat
,
cold
,
pain
,
pleasure
,
or
any
other
material
quality
.
Basis
of
Tradition
Mans
Nature
Intellectual
Reflection
Mans
Nature
direct
sensitive
knowledg
naturally
and
necessarily
the
best
Nature
in
the
Vniverse
.
Arguments
of
Hope
and
Fear
direct
Impressions
Intellectual
Reflection
Arguments
of
Hope
and
Fear
Moral
part
Moral
part
was
setled
in
the
heart
of
and
firmly
believed
to
be
the
way
to
happiness
,
and
the
contradicting
or
deserting
of
this
,
to
be
the
way
to
misery
.
to
adhere
to
this
Doctrine
were
deterred
by
them
from
relinquishing
it
.
And
this
was
in
all
Ages
the
perswasion
of
the
faithful
.
strongly
applied
,
are
the
causes
of
actual
will
.
Besides
,
the
thing
was
feasible
,
or
within
their
power
what
they
were
bred
to
was
knowable
by
them
,
This
put
,
it
follows
as
certainly
that
a
great
number
in
each
Age
would
continue
to
hold
themselves
,
and
teach
their
Children
as
themselves
had
been
taught
,
would
follow
and
stick
to
this
Tradition
of
the
one
true
God
,
as
it
doth
that
a
cause
put
actually
causing
produceth
its
effect
.
Actually
I
say
;
for
since
the
cause
is
put
,
and
the
Patient
disposed
,
it
follows
inevitably
that
the
cause
is
put
still
actually
causing
.
fears
and
hopes
strongly
applied
to
be
the
actual
causes
of
will
procession
of
the
Holy
Ghost
from
the
Son
,
That
the
plea
of
the
Greek
Church
is
Non-Tradition
,
alledging
only
this
,
That
their
Fathers
do
not
deliver
the
Doctrine
of
the
procession
of
the
Holy
Ghost
;
not
that
they
say
the
contrary
,
which
clearly
demonstrates
there
are
no
opposite
Traditions
between
them
and
us
.
That
the
Holy
Ghost
proceeds
from
the
Son
,
That
he
proceeds
only
from
the
Father
of
the
Procession
from
the
Son
also
,
opposite
Traditions
Christ
commanded
his
Apostles
to
preach
to
all
the
World
,
and
lest
any
one
should
doubt
of
the
effect
,
he
sent
his
Spirit
into
them
to
bring
to
their
remembrance
what
he
had
taught
them
;
which
Spirit
did
not
only
give
them
a
power
to
do
what
he
enclined
them
to
,
but
did
cause
them
actually
to
do
it
.
The
Apostles
preached
this
Doctrine
;
the
Nations
understood
it
,
lived
according
to
it
,
and
valued
it
as
that
which
was
necessary
to
them
and
their
Posterity
incomparably
beyond
any
thing
else
.
These
things
being
put
,
it
cannot
enter
into
any
mans
understanding
,
but
that
the
Christian
of
the
first
Age
,
being
the
Scholars
of
the
Apostles
,
could
and
would
earnestly
commend
the
Christian
Doctrine
to
their
Posterity
;
if
so
,
it
is
evident
that
they
did
.
So
that
the
continuance
of
the
purity
of
the
Faith
in
the
Church
is
founded
upon
this
,
That
Fathers
always
delivered
the
same
Doctrine
to
their
Children
which
they
had
received
from
their
Fathers
,
and
did
believe
it
under
this
very
Notion
and
Title
as
received
;
nor
could
any
one
deliver
another
Doctrine
under
this
Title
,
but
he
would
be
convinced
of
a
Lye
by
the
rest
;
and
if
the
whole
Church
should
endeavour
to
deliver
a
new
Doctrine
under
that
Title
,
that
whole
Age
would
be
in
their
Consciences
condemned
of
perfidiousness
and
parricide
.
Now
this
is
as
impossible
as
it
is
that
all
Mankind
should
conspire
to
kill
themselves
.
That
if
the
Tradition
of
the
Christian
Faith
be
not
more
firm
than
the
course
of
the
Sun
and
Moon
,
and
the
propagation
of
Mankind
,
then
God
hath
shewn
himself
an
unskilful
Artificer
.
Procession
of
the
Holy
Ghost
is
the
force
of
hopes
and
fears
strongly
applied
?
Where
are
the
certain
Causes
of
actual
Will
to
adhere
to
this
Doctrine
?
the
Causes
being
put
actually
causing
brings
down
Faith
clad
in
such
plain
matters
of
Fact
,
that
the
most
stupid
man
living
could
not
possibly
be
ignorant
of
it
;
nay
it
exceeds
all
the
power
of
Nature
to
blot
Knowledges
thus
fixt
out
of
the
Soul
of
one
single
Believer
since
no
man
can
hold
contrary
to
his
knowledg
,
or
doubt
of
what
he
holds
,
nor
change
and
innovate
without
knowing
he
did
so
,
't
is
a
manifest
impossibility
,
a
whole
Church
should
in
any
Age
fall
into
an
absurdity
so
inconsistent
with
the
nature
of
one
single
man
.
't
is
natural
for
every
man
to
speak
Truth
,
and
Grace
is
to
perfect
Nature
in
whatever
is
good
in
it
,
it
follows
that
one
truly
Christian
heart
is
far
more
fixt
to
Veracity
,
than
others
not
imbu'd
with
these
heavenly
Tenets
;
and
consequently
that
a
multitude
of
such
must
incomparably
exceed
in
point
of
testifying
the
same
number
of
others
,
unfortified
by
Christs
Doctrine
.
such
a
thought
cannot
enter
into
the
most
depraved
Nature
,
as
to
harm
another
without
any
good
to
himself
,
and
yet
this
must
be
if
we
put
Christian
Fathers
misteaching
their
Children
unreceived
Doctrines
for
received
contrary
to
their
knowledg
.
For
supposing
Sanctity
in
the
Latin
)
That
is
,
that
multitudes
in
it
make
Heaven
their
first
love
,
and
look
on
spiritual
goods
as
their
main
concern
,
it
follows
,
that
had
the
Fathers
in
any
Age
consented
to
mislead
their
Posterity
from
what
themselves
to
be
true
,
they
should
do
the
most
extream
harm
imaginable
to
others
without
any
the
least
good
to
themselves
;
which
is
perhaps
impossible
in
one
single
man
,
more
in
few
,
but
infinitely
in
a
multitude
,
especially
of
good
men
.
the
natural
love
of
Parents
to
their
Children
the
natural
care
men
have
of
not
losing
their
Credit
by
telling
pernicious
Lyes
.
how
the
Principles
of
each
Science
,
Arithmetick
,
Geometry
,
Logick
,
Nature
,
Morality
,
Historical
Prudence
,
Politicks
,
Metaphysicks
,
Divinity
,
the
first
Principle
That
Tradition
is
certain
Arithmetick
,
Geometry
,
Logick
,
Natural
Philosophy
,
Metaphysicks
,
Greek
Church
the
great
blessing
of
Oral
Tradition
Oral
Tradition
Procession
of
the
Holy
Ghost
whole
Church
Greek
Church
pretty
things
Popes
Infallibility
Traditionary
Church
First
Demonstration
à
posteriori
Demonstration
a
Posteriori
Demonstration
a
Priori
must
mean
unsensed
Letters
and
Characters
.
That
this
Demonstration
seems
a
needless
endeavour
against
the
Protestants
,
who
yield
that
those
Points
in
which
we
agree
,
as
the
Trinity
,
Incarnation
,
came
down
by
this
way
of
Tradition
;
And
this
no
Protestant
ever
denied
Whether
the
same
vertue
of
Tradition
would
not
have
been
as
powerful
to
bring
down
other
Points
in
which
we
do
not
agree
,
had
any
such
been
?
The
effect
then
we
will
pitch
upon
,
and
avow
to
be
the
proper
one
of
such
a
cause
,
is
the
present
perswasion
of
Traditionary
Christians
(
or
Catholicks
)
that
their
Faith
hath
descended
from
Christ
and
his
Apostles
uninterruptedly
,
which
we
find
most
firmly
rooted
in
their
heart
;
and
the
existence
of
this
perswasion
we
affirm
to
be
impossible
without
the
existence
of
Traditions
ever
indeficiency
to
beget
it
.
To
prove
this
,
I
lay
this
first
Principle
;
That
Age
,
which
holds
her
Faith
thus
delivered
from
the
Apostles
,
neither
can
it self
have
changed
any
thing
in
it
nor
know
or
doubt
that
any
Age
since
the
Apostles
had
changed
or
innovated
therein
.
The
second
Principle
shall
be
this
.
No
Age
could
innovate
any
thing
,
and
withall
deliver
that
very
thing
to
Posterity
as
received
from
Christ
by
continual
Succession
.
Demonstration
a
Priori
Demonstration
a
Priori
Procession
of
the
Holy
Ghost
This
is
my
Body
as
I
am
the
Vine
,
I
am
the
Door
,
such
a
priviledg
,
as
if
all
the
learned
Clerks
that
ever
lived
since
the
beginning
of
the
World
,
should
have
studied
to
raise
,
advance
,
and
magnifie
some
one
state
of
men
to
the
highest
pitch
of
Reverence
and
Eminency
,
they
could
never
(
without
special
light
from
Heaven
)
have
thought
of
any
thing
comparable
to
this
.
special
light
from
Heaven
impossible
that
the
Authority
of
one
man
surely
the
Devil
himself
would
rather
help
the
Church
,
than
permit
so
little
pride
among
men
God
requires
at
the
Peoples
hands
a
Credulity
of
things
above
and
beyond
Nature
;
nay
,
beyond
all
the
Fables
,
be
it
spoken
with
respect
,
that
ever
man
invented
.
a
term
of
Art
Stephanus
;
For
these
Popes
minded
nothing
else
but
how
they
might
extinguish
both
the
Name
and
Dignity
of
their
Predecessors
.
is
utterly
false
,
for
there
was
nothing
that
they
were
less
sollicitous
about
in
those
Times
,
than
to
furnish
the
City
with
any
publick
Teachers
.
Phil.
Bergomensis
It
happened
in
that
Age
through
the
slothfulness
of
men
,
that
there
was
a
general
decay
of
Vertue
both
in
the
Head
and
Members
.
These
Times
through
the
Ambition
and
cruel
Tyranny
of
the
Popes
were
extremely
unhappy
—
For
the
Popes
setting
aside
the
fear
of
God
and
his
Worship
,
fell
into
such
enmities
among
themselves
,
as
cruel
Tyrants
exercise
towards
one
another
.
It
is
wonderful
to
observe
what
a
strange
forgetfulness
of
all
Arts
did
about
this
time
seize
upon
men
;
insomuch
that
neither
the
Popes
,
nor
other
Princes
seem'd
to
have
any
sense
or
apprehension
of
any
thing
that
might
be
useful
to
humane
life
.
There
were
no
wholsome
Laws
,
no
Reparations
of
Churches
,
no
pursuit
of
liberal
Arts
;
but
a
kind
of
stupidity
and
madness
and
forgetfulness
of
manners
had
possessed
the
minds
of
men
.
I
cannot
but
much
wonder
,
from
whence
these
Tragical
Examples
of
Popes
should
spring
;
and
how
their
minds
should
come
to
be
so
devoid
of
all
Piety
,
as
neither
to
regard
the
Person
which
they
susteined
,
nor
the
place
they
were
in
.
Sigonius
the
foulest
and
blackest
,
both
in
respect
of
the
wickedness
of
Princes
,
and
the
madness
of
the
People
,
that
are
to
be
found
in
all
Antiquity
,
Genebrard
is
called
the
unhappy
Age
;
being
destitute
of
men
eminent
for
Wit
and
Learning
,
as
also
of
famous
Princes
and
Popes
.
In
this
Time
there
was
scarce
any
thing
done
worthy
to
be
remembred
by
Posterity
.
But
chiefly
unhappy
in
this
one
thing
,
that
for
almost
years
together
,
about
Popes
,
did
utterly
degenerate
from
the
vertue
of
their
Ancestors
.
About
the
year
of
our
Lord
One
Thousand
,
there
began
an
effeminate
Time
,
in
which
the
Christian
Faith
begun
to
degenerate
exceedingly
,
and
to
decline
from
its
ancient
vigour
that
in
many
Countries
of
Christendom
,
neither
Sacraments
nor
Ecclesiastical
Rites
were
observed
—
And
people
were
given
to
Soothsaying
and
Witchcrafts
,
and
the
Priest
was
like
the
People
.
Christian
Faith
Ecclesiastical
Observances
many
Christian
Countries
.
Gerbert
The
World
stands
amazed
at
the
Manners
of
In
the
West
and
almost
all
the
World
over
(
especially
among
those
who
were
called
the
Faithful
)
Faith
failed
,
and
there
was
no
fear
of
God
among
them
:
Justice
was
perished
from
among
men
,
and
violence
prevailing
against
equity
governed
the
Nations
.
Fraud
,
Deceit
,
and
the
Arts
of
Couzenage
were
grown
universal
.
All
kind
of
Vertue
gave
way
as
an
useless
thing
,
and
wickedness
supply'd
its
place
.
The
World
seemed
to
be
declining
apace
towards
its
Evening
,
and
the
second
coming
of
the
Son
of
man
to
draw
near
:
For
Love
was
grown
cold
,
and
Fai●h
was
not
found
upon
Earth
.
All
things
were
in
Confusion
,
and
the
World
looked
as
if
it
would
return
to
its
old
Chaos
.
—
All
sorts
of
Fornication
were
committed
with
the
same
freedom
as
if
they
had
been
lawful
Actions
;
for
men
neither
blushed
at
them
,
nor
were
punish't
for
them
.
—
Nor
did
the
Clergy
live
better
than
the
People
.
—
For
the
Bishops
were
grown
negligent
of
the
Duty
of
their
place
.
In
a
word
,
men
ran
themselves
headlong
into
all
Vice
,
and
all
Flesh
had
corrupted
its
way
.
That
in
those
days
,
the
Priests
and
Bishops
,
who
ought
to
have
been
the
Pillars
of
the
Church
,
were
so
negligent
that
they
did
not
mind
the
Divine
Scripture
;
nor
take
any
care
to
teach
and
instruct
Scholars
that
might
succeed
them
,
as
we
read
holy
Men
had
used
to
do
,
who
left
many
Scholars
perfectly
instructed
to
be
their
Successors
.
Oral
Tradition
deliver
down
from
hand
to
hand
the
sense
and
faith
of
Fore-fathers
.
De
Christian.
Eccles.
Success
M.
S.
M.
S.
Mr.
S.
Baronius
.
Bellarmine
That
there
was
never
any
either
more
unlearned
,
or
more
unhappy
.
Baronius
What
was
then
the
face
of
the
Roman
Church
?
How
deformed
?
When
Whores
,
no
less
powerful
than
vile
,
bore
the
chief
sway
at
and
at
their
pleasure
changed
Sees
,
appointed
Bishops
;
and
(
which
it
is
horrible
to
mention
)
did
thrust
into
St.
See
their
own
Gallants
,
false-Popes
,
who
would
not
have
been
mentioned
in
the
Catalogue
of
the
Roman
Popes
,
but
only
for
the
more
distinct
Recording
of
so
long
a
Succession
of
Times
.
Christ
was
then
(
it
seems
)
in
a
very
deep
sleep
—
And
which
was
worse
;
when
the
Lord
was
thus
asleep
there
were
no
Disciples
to
awaken
him
,
being
themselves
all
fast
asleep
.
What
kind
of
Cardinal
Presbyters
and
Deacons
can
we
think
were
chosen
by
these
Monsters
,
when
nothing
is
so
natural
as
for
every
one
to
propagate
his
own
likeness
?
main
chance
a
Posteriori
a
Priori
We
cannot
now
say
,
as
is
the
People
so
is
the
Priest
;
for
the
People
are
not
so
bad
as
their
Priests
.
Century
,
Nic.
de
Clemangiis
Of
the
corrupt
state
of
the
Church
from
the
very
Head
of
it
to
its
lowest
Members
.
Who
is
there
that
preaches
the
Gospel
to
the
People
?
Who
shews
them
the
way
to
Salvation
either
by
Word
or
Action
?
that
the
Church
might
be
provided
of
worthier
Governors
,
both
in
respect
of
their
Learning
,
and
their
lives
,
did
not
the
thing
it self
declare
the
contrary
,
and
that
ignorant
and
useless
Persons
(
provided
they
had
money
)
were
by
Simony
advanced
to
the
highest
degrees
in
the
Church
.
did
not
come
from
their
Studies
,
or
from
Schools
of
Learning
,
to
govern
Parishes
;
but
from
the
Plow
,
and
from
the
meanest
Professions
:
and
that
they
understood
Latin
and
Arabick
much
at
the
same
rate
;
and
many
of
them
could
not
read
at
all
.
But
it
may
be
their
manners
were
such
as
might
be
some
excuse
for
their
Ignorance
.
No
;
though
their
Learning
was
but
little
,
their
Vertue
was
less
;
for
being
brought
up
in
Idleness
,
they
followed
nothing
but
Debauchery
and
Sports
,
Hence
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
in
all
places
there
are
so
many
wicked
,
and
wretched
,
and
ignorant
Priests
—
Hence
it
is
that
Priests
are
so
contemned
by
the
common
People
—
Formerly
the
Priesthood
was
highly
honoured
by
the
People
,
and
nothing
was
more
venerable
than
that
Order
of
men
;
but
now
nothing
is
more
vile
and
despicable
.
—
I
make
no
doubt
,
but
there
are
now
more
Thieves
and
Robbers
,
than
true
Pastors
in
the
Church
.
—
Why
should
any
man
now
flatter
himself
with
hopes
of
Preferment
,
because
of
his
Vertue
or
Learning
?
Men
do
not
now
(
as
formerly
)
rise
in
the
Church
by
such
Arts
—
Which
of
those
that
are
now
adays
advanced
to
the
Pontifical
Dignity
,
hath
so
much
as
perfunctorily
read
,
or
heard
,
or
learn't
the
Scriptures
;
yea
,
or
ever
touched
any
more
than
the
cover
of
the
Bible
?
They
would
much
more
contentedly
bear
the
loss
of
ten
thousand
Souls
,
than
of
ten
or
twelve
Shillings
.
But
why
do
I
say
more
contentedly
?
When
without
the
least
trouble
or
disturbance
to
themselves
,
they
can
bear
the
loss
of
Souls
;
a
thing
so
far
from
their
care
,
that
it
never
entred
into
their
thoughts
.
That
if
there
were
perhaps
any
one
who
did
not
take
these
courses
,
the
rest
would
all
snarle
at
him
,
call
him
Fool
,
and
say
he
was
unfit
to
be
a
Priest
.
—
So
that
the
study
of
the
Scriptures
(
together
with
the
Professors
of
it
)
was
turned
into
laughter
and
scorn
by
all
;
but
(
which
is
prodigious
)
especially
by
the
Popes
,
who
prefer
their
own
Traditions
many
degrees
before
the
Commands
of
God
.
That
there
was
no
enquiry
made
into
their
Lives
,
no
question
about
their
Manners
:
As
for
their
Learning
what
need
I
speak
of
that
?
When
we
see
the
Priests
,
almost
universally
▪
have
much
ado
to
read
,
though
but
in
an
haesitating
and
spelling
fashion
,
drawing
out
one
syllable
after
another
,
without
understanding
either
the
sense
of
what
they
read
,
or
the
words
.
oral
Tradition
common
Drunkenness
and
Incontinency
of
Priests
,
who
kept
Whores
in
their
Houses
the
Sanctuaries
of
God
,
were
he
abominable
Stews
of
and
the
Receptacles
of
lascivious
young
men
that
at
this
day
it
is
the
same
thing
to
put
a
Virgin
into
a
Nunnery
,
and
to
make
her
a
common
Strumpet
.
That
wickedness
did
so
abound
in
all
Orders
of
men
,
that
scarce
one
among
a
thousand
was
to
be
found
who
did
truly
live
up
to
his
Profession
:
And
if
there
was
any
one
that
did
not
follow
these
lewd
courses
,
he
became
ridiculous
to
others
,
and
was
branded
either
as
an
insolent
singular
Mad-man
,
or
an
Hypocrite
.
viz.
That
he
did
chiefly
apply
himself
to
gratifie
and
oblige
all
the
Parasites
and
Buffoons
that
had
any
interest
in
the
several
Courts
of
Princes
:
And
to
this
end
,
did
confer
upon
these
,
and
upon
handsom
young
Boys
(
which
he
much
delighted
in
)
almost
all
the
vacant
Bishopricks
,
and
most
of
the
other
Church-D●●●nities
.
oral
Tradition
Holy
Roman-Catholick
Church
these
worst
times
of
the
Church
,
when
Ignorance
,
Wordliness
,
Pride
,
Tyranny
,
reigned
with
so
much
scope
:
When
the
Popes
(
so
wicked
,
so
abominable
in
their
Lives
)
enjoyed
so
unlimited
a
power
even
over
secular
Princes
themselves
,
and
much
more
over
the
Clergy
:
worst
times
of
about
six
Ages
before
was
to
him
an
irrefragable
Testimony
of
a
strange
watchfulness
of
Divine
Providence
over
the
Church
,
to
preserve
it
from
the
Gates
of
Hell
(
that
is
,
established
and
dangerous
Errors
)
during
these
worst
times
.
Catholick
whose
judgment
it
is
to
renounce
his
own
judgment
:
viz.
the
Gates
of
Hell
dangerous
errors
establish'd
Errors
pretty
Boys
the
Parents
of
Religion
Arguments
of
Hope
and
Fear
strongly
applied
causes
of
actual
will
That
the
Church
sings
,
and
will
sing
to
the
end
of
the
World
,
I
am
black
,
but
I
am
fair
;
that
is
to
say
,
I
am
black
in
Manners
,
but
fair
in
Doctrine
:
vigorous
causes
imprinting
supreme
Pastor
George
,
by
the
help
of
a
long
staff
,
and
a
cast
of
his
body
might
leap
over
's
Steeple
;
never
considering
all
the
while
the
disproportion
of
all
these
advantages
to
the
height
of
the
Steeple
:
so
he
that
discourseth
at
large
how
Errors
use
to
slide
into
mans
life
,
without
comparing
the
power
of
the
causes
of
Error
to
the
strength
of
resisting
,
which
consists
in
this
Principle
,
Nothing
is
to
be
admitted
but
what
descends
by
Tradition
,
says
no
more
towards
proving
an
Error
's
over-running
the
Church
,
than
the
Orator
for
's
leaping
over
the
Steeple
Nothing
is
to
be
admitted
but
what
descends
by
Tradition
?
long
staff
cast
of
his
Body
That
nothing
is
to
be
admitted
,
but
what
descends
by
Tradition
,
viz.
That
nothing
is
to
be
admitted
as
the
Doctrine
of
Christ
,
but
what
is
descended
to
them
by
Tradition
:
viz.
That
nothing
but
Truth
is
to
be
assented
to
,
viz.
That
no
man
is
to
do
any
thing
but
what
is
wise
and
vertuous
,
That
Age
,
which
holds
her
Faith
delivered
thus
from
the
Apostles
,
neither
can
it self
have
changed
any
thing
in
it
,
nor
know
or
doubt
that
any
Age
since
the
Apostles
had
changed
or
innovated
any
thing
therein
.
This
Proposition
needs
no
proof
to
evidence
it
,
but
only
an
Explication
.
For
since
no
man
can
hold
contrary
to
his
knowledg
,
or
doubt
of
what
he
holds
,
nor
change
or
innovate
in
the
case
proposed
without
knowing
he
did
so
;
't
is
a
manifest
impossibility
a
whole
Age
should
fall
into
an
absurdity
so
inconsistent
with
the
nature
of
one
single
man
.
inconsistent
with
the
nature
if
one
single
man
,
is
manifestly
impossible
to
a
whole
Age
to
hold
contrary
to
his
knowledg
,
&c.
that
Age
which
holds
her
Faith
delivered
thus
from
the
Apostles
,
neither
can
it self
have
changed
any
thing
,
nor
,
&c.
first
Principle
second
Principle
That
no
Age
could
innovate
any
thing
,
and
withall
deliver
that
very
thing
to
posterity
as
received
from
Christ
by
continual
Succession
.
Since
man
is
a
rational
Creature
,
he
must
have
some
Reason
or
Motive
,
good
or
bad
,
which
he
proposeth
to
himself
as
an
end
to
be
achieved
by
his
action
:
And
whatever
his
remote
end
is
,
his
immediate
end
,
in
telling
posterity
a
late
invented
thing
was
held
immdiately
before
,
is
to
make
them
belive
it
.
Wherefore
since
a
seen
impossibility
cannot
be
a
Motive
to
one
not
frantick
;
and
since
't
is
evidently
impossiible
they
should
make
posterity
believe
a
thing
so
universally
known
to
be
false
,
as
this
must
needs
be
,
it
is
as
impossiible
this
Principle
should
faulter
,
as
that
the
fore-going
Age
should
conspire
to
act
without
a
motive
,
or
that
the
succeeding
Age
should
believe
what
they
know
to
be
otherwise
,
that
is
,
should
hold
both
sides
of
a
Contradiction
in
a
clear
matter
of
Fact
.
Man
,
though
he
be
a
rational
Creature
,
second
Principle
the
noble
Science
of
Controversie
Traditionary
Jews
existence
of
such
a
perswasion
impossible
without
Traditions
ever-indeficiency
to
beget
it
.
the
richer
sort
were
of
the
perswasion
of
the
Sadduces
,
but
the
multitude
were
on
the
Pharisees
side
.
written
Doctrine
Oral
Tradition
to
interpret
the
Law
more
accurately
and
exactly
all
things
,
that
belonged
to
Prayer
and
Divine
Worship
,
were
regulated
and
administred
according
to
their
interpretations
Word
of
God
by
their
Tradition
Oral
Tradition
to
Scripture
Do
not
think
that
the
written
Law
is
the
foundation
,
but
that
the
Law
Orally
delivered
is
the
right
foundation
Oral
Tradition
Rule
of
Faith
.
There
is
more
in
the
words
of
the
Scribes
than
in
the
words
of
the
written
Law
.
The
Oral
Law
excells
the
Written
,
as
much
as
the
Soul
doth
the
Body
If
the
Scribes
say
that
the
right
hand
is
the
left
,
and
the
left
the
right
hearken
to
them
washing
of
hands
and
cups
clad
in
such
plain
matters
of
Fact
,
that
the
most
stupid
man
living
could
not
possibly
be
ignorant
of
them
.
the
Faith
of
the
Jews
was
not
delivered
to
them
Orally
,
but
by
Writing
Jewish
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
As
this
is
to
preserve
a
sound
and
entire
respect
to
the
Majesty
of
the
ancient
Mosaick
Scripture
,
to
believe
and
observe
not
only
all
the
things
which
are
therein
actually
contained
,
but
also
those
things
which
are
therein
contained
mediately
and
relatively
,
as
the
Doctrines
of
Paradise
,
which
were
not
contained
therein
but
mediately
,
and
by
the
authority
which
it
gave
to
the
deposition
of
the
Patriarchal
and
Mosaick
Tradition
,
preserved
by
heart
,
and
in
the
Oral
Doctrine
of
the
Synagogue
:
So
this
is
to
preserve
a
sound
and
entire
respect
to
the
Majesty
of
the
Apostolical
Scripture
,
to
believe
and
observe
all
the
things
which
it
contains
,
not
only
immediately
and
by
it self
,
but
mediately
and
by
reference
to
the
Apostolical
Traditions
,
to
which
in
gross
and
generally
it
gives
the
Authority
of
Apostolical
Doctrines
,
and
to
the
Church
the
Authority
of
Guardian
and
Depositary
to
preserve
▪
and
attest
them
.
Voysin
Raymundus
Martyn
That
as
in
the
Old
Law
the
great
Consistory
at
was
the
foundation
of
the
true
Tradition
,
so
the
See
of
is
the
foundation
of
our
Traditions
.
And
as
the
continual
succession
of
the
High
Priests
and
Fathers
among
the
Jews
was
the
great
confirmation
of
the
Truth
of
their
Traditions
,
so
with
us
the
Truth
of
our
Catholick
Doctrine
is
confirmed
by
a
continual
succession
of
Popes
.
Oral
Tradition
a
Posteriori
the
present
perswasion
of
the
Traditionary
that
their
Faith
descended
from
and
the
to
them
uninterruptedly
▪
which
we
find
was
most
firmly
rooted
in
their
hearts
.
sense
written
in
their
hearts
from
the
Patriarchal
and
Mosaick
Tradition
preserved
by
heart
and
in
the
Oral
Doctrine
of
the
Synagogue
,
and
from
the
living
voyce
of
Church
essential
the
last
Judgment
the
Resurrection
being
a
Temporal
Prince
By
what
vertue
Tradition
brought
down
those
other
Points
?
and
whether
the
same
vertue
were
not
powerful
to
bring
down
as
well
as
those
Is
there
not
a
necessary
connexion
and
relation
between
a
constant
Cause
,
and
its
formal
Effect
?
So
that
if
its
formal
Effect
be
Points
received
as
delivered
ever
,
the
proper
Cause
must
be
an
ever-delivery
;
whence
he
will
argue
from
such
an
Effect
to
its
Cause
for
any
particular
Point
,
and
consequently
for
Point
that
is
in
Controversie
between
in
case
it
be
a
Point
held
ever
delivered
Oral
Tradition
Jewish
Tradition
Explications
of
Scripture
framed
and
invented
by
their
own
Rabbines
.
Prophets
.
Secondly
form
of
these
Traditions
is
more
ridiculous
than
the
Canting
of
Gypsies
,
or
the
jugling
of
Hocus-pocus
,
because
it
consists
in
inventing
the
sense
of
Scripture
from
the
mysteries
,
and
numbers
,
and
changes
of
Letters
.
Vnwritten
or
Oral
Law
Rabbi
Jehuda
Oral
Tradition
This
Cabala
was
a
Doctrine
delivered
to
few
,
and
that
with
strict
charge
to
keep
it
from
Publicity
,
and
so
communicate
it
again
successively
to
a
select
Committee
of
a
few
;
wherein
you
may
see
as
fair
an
opportunity
for
jugling
and
couzenage
,
as
in
our
case
there
is
an
impossibility
.
That
in
every
Age
,
from
the
time
of
who
compiled
the
the
Oral
Law
was
publickly
taught
:
And
that
after
had
compiled
it
into
one
Volume
,
the
Israelites
did
generally
write
out
Copies
of
it
,
and
it
was
every
where
carefully
taught
,
for
fear
lest
the
Oral
Law
should
by
forgetfulness
be
last
among
the
Jews
.
great
an
impossibility
of
Jugling
and
Couzenage
in
the
case
washing
of
Hands
and
Cups
washing
of
Hands
time
of
Easter
Baptism
of
Hereticks
the
admission
of
Infants
to
the
Communion
holders
to
Tradition
Papias
(
a
good
but
a
credulous
and
simple
man
)
Justin
Martyr
Orthodox
Christians
Rule
of
Faith
his
testimony
proves
it
to
be
no
Tradition
;
for
he
sets
down
the
supposed
words
of
our
Saviour
,
which
plainly
shews
it
is
a
story
,
not
a
Tradition
;
a
Tradition
being
a
sense
delivered
not
in
set
words
,
but
setled
in
the
Auditors
hearts
by
hundreds
of
different
expressions
explicating
the
same
meaning
.
I
cannot
but
applaud
your
Discourse
,
it
hath
so
pleasing
and
attractive
a
countenance
.
I
am
not
able
to
oppose
what
you
say
by
any
weighty
Objection
,
your
Arguments
being
not
only
strong
and
nervous
,
but
of
so
comely
and
winning
a
complexion
,
as
if
without
any
evidence
of
its
consequence
it
would
perswade
men
to
believe
it
.
Rule
of
Faith
,
what
can
we
undertakingly
promise
to
weaker
heads
Ten
Commandments
Tradition
is
a
sense
delivered
not
in
set
words
,
in
set-words
'T
is
impossible
to
put
fully
and
beyond
all
quarrel
the
same
sense
in
divers
words
to
explicate
the
same
meaning
by
hundreds
of
different
expressions
,
by
setling
the
sense
of
it
in
the
Auditors
hearts
That
the
Primitive
Churches
were
even
to
excess
scrupulous
in
maintaining
the
very
phrases
of
Traditionary
Doctrines
White
)
plainly
shews
to
be
stories
,
not
Traditions
,
because
Tradition
is
a
sense
delivered
not
in
set-words
.
That
few
among
their
learnedst
Masters
of
Controversie
,
propose
the
Points
to
be
disputed
between
them
and
the
Protestants
,
in
the
Language
of
the
Church
.
settle
the
sense
of
these
Points
by
hundreds
of
different
expressions
explicating
referring
to
the
Doctrine
setled
by
Oral
Instruction
,
to
shew
the
uniformity
of
it
everywhere
,
calls
it
a
form
of
wholsom
words
.
a
form
of
words
a
Tradition
is
a
sense
not
delivered
in
set-words
.
not
only
to
deliver
Traditional
Truths
themselves
,
but
the
terms
also
in
which
those
Truths
were
conveyed
to
his
Times
.
Justin
esteem'd
it
not
as
a
point
necessary
to
salvation
;
but
rather
a
piece
of
Learning
higher
than
the
common
:
Since
he
both
acknowledges
other
Catholicks
held
the
contrary
,
and
entitles
those
of
his
perswasion
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
right
in
all
opinions
,
wholly
of
his
own
mind
as
a
point
necessary
to
Salvation
,
Justin
acknowledges
other
Catohlicks
to
have
held
the
contrary
,
Jerusalem
should
be
re-built
I
am
not
such
a
Wretch
as
to
speak
otherwise
than
I
think
.
I
have
told
thee
before
that
my self
and
many
others
(
as
ye
all
know
)
are
of
the
mind
that
this
will
come
to
pass
.
But
,
that
many
indeed
of
those
Christians
who
,
are
of
the
pure
and
pious
perswasion
,
do
not
own
this
,
I
have
intimated
to
thee
.
For
of
these
(
viz.
who
are
called
indeed
Christians
,
but
are
atheistical
and
impious
Hereticks
,
I
have
shewed
thee
that
they
teach
in
all
Points
blasphemous
,
atheistical
and
absurd
things
.
But
that
ye
may
know
that
I
do
not
say
this
for
you
only
;
I
will
,
according
to
my
ability
,
compile
all
these
Discourses
which
have
past
between
us
into
one
piece
;
in
which
I
will
by
Writing
make
Profession
of
this
very
thing
which
I
now
declare
to
you
.
For
I
do
not
choose
to
follow
men
or
the
Doctrines
of
men
,
but
God
and
such
Doctrines
as
are
from
him
.
And
though
ye
may
have
conversed
with
some
who
are
called
Christians
,
and
yet
do
not
acknowledg
this
;
but
even
dare
to
blaspheme
the
God
of
and
the
God
of
and
the
God
of
who
also
say
that
there
is
no
Resurrection
of
the
dead
,
but
that
so
soon
as
they
dye
their
Souls
are
received
into
Heaven
:
Do
not
count
these
men
Christians
;
no
more
than
a
man
,
that
considers
things
rightly
,
would
own
the
Sadduces
and
such
like
Sects
to
be
Jews
,
But
I
my self
,
and
as
many
Christians
as
are
thoroughly
of
the
right
perswasion
,
do
both
know
that
there
shall
be
a
Resurrection
of
the
Flesh
,
and
a
thousand
years
in
which
shall
be
built
,
adorned
and
enlarged
,
Divine
Doctrine
negative
Particle
Christians
only
in
Name
,
but
in
Truth
are
impious
blasphemous
and
absurd
Hereticks
,
other
Catholicks
Justin
acknowledges
held
contrary
negative
particle
[
not
affirmative
Propositions
of
Scripture
)
to
demonstrate
that
the
particle
was
not
left
out
Dialogue
.
I
have
declared
to
thee
before
that
my self
and
many
others
are
of
the
mind
that
this
will
come
to
pass
.
But
,
that
many
indeed
of
those
Christians
,
who
are
of
the
pure
and
pious
perswasion
,
do
not
own
this
,
I
have
intimated
to
thee
.
For
of
these
,
who
are
called
indeed
Christians
but
are
Atheistical
and
Impious
Hereticks
,
I
have
shewed
thee
that
they
teach
in
all
Points
blasphemous
,
atheistical
,
and
absurd
things
.
Millenary
Opinion
I
say
who
own
themselves
Christians
,
and
confess
the
crucified
Jesus
to
be
both
Lord
and
Christ
,
and
yet
teach
not
his
Doctrines
,
but
the
Doctrines
of
seducing
spirits
.
We
who
are
the
Disciples
of
the
true
and
pure
Doctrine
of
Jesus
Christ
are
from
this
very
thing
the
more
strengthned
in
our
Faith
,
and
become
more
confirmed
in
the
Hope
which
by
him
hath
been
declared
to
us
.
For
we
now
see
those
things
visibly
and
effectually
accomplish't
which
he
before-hand
told
us
would
be
done
in
his
Name
.
For
he
said
,
Many
shall
come
in
my
Name
,
this
Doctrine
both
are
and
have
been
,
that
have
come
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
,
and
taught
both
to
speak
and
do
atheistical
and
blasphemous
things
;
and
are
by
us
denominated
from
those
men
from
whom
each
of
their
Doctrines
and
Opinions
had
its
rise
Marcionites
,
Valentinians
and
all
these
in
their
several
ways
teach
men
to
blaspheme
the
Creator
of
the
Vniverse
,
and
the
Christ
whose
Coming
was
foretold
by
him
,
and
the
God
of
But
we
have
no
communion
with
them
,
as
knowing
them
to
be
atheistical
and
impious
,
I
have
declared
to
thee
,
I
have
intimated
to
thee
,
&c.
Millennium
;
We
the
Disciples
of
the
true
and
pure
Doctrine
,
viz.
My self
and
many
others
my self
and
as
many
Christians
as
are
thoroughly
of
the
right
perswasion
.
Secondly
,
Millennium
;
Many
Christians
Of
a
right
perswasion
?
That
,
I
have
signified
before
For
I
have
shewed
thee
of
them
who
are
called
Christians
,
but
are
indeed
Atheists
and
impious
Hereticks
,
that
they
teach
blasphemous
and
atheistical
and
absurd
things
many
in
number
,
and
were
called
Christians
,
but
were
Teachers
of
blasphemous
and
atheistical
things
,
and
known
to
be
Atheists
and
Impious
,
many
Christians
of
the
pure
and
pious
perswasion
,
Justin
Martyr
infallible
way
perch
upon
the
specifical
natures
of
Things
in
the
judgment
of
the
Apostolick
See
he
was
free
from
all
stain
of
Heresie
.
Heretick
.
Eranistes
the
Symbols
of
the
Lords
Body
and
Blood
are
one
thing
before
the
invocation
of
the
Priest
;
but
after
the
invocation
are
changed
and
do
become
another
thing
:
So
the
Body
of
our
Lord
,
after
his
Ascension
,
is
changed
into
the
Divine
substance
.
Thou
art
caught
in
thine
own
Net
.
Because
the
mystical
Symbols
after
Consecration
do
not
pass
out
of
their
own
Nature
;
for
they
remain
in
their
former
substance
,
figure
,
and
appearance
,
and
may
be
seen
and
handled
even
as
before
.
That
one
quantum
may
be
together
in
the
very
same
place
with
another
.
That
a
less
quantum
may
be
together
in
the
same
place
with
a
greater
That
a
greater
quantum
may
be
together
with
every
part
of
a
less
quantum
,
That
a
subject
may
be
without
quantity
,
i·
e.
That
a
quantum
may
be
without
any
quantitative
Mode
,
The
possibility
of
all
which
it
would
be
too
tedious
a
work
to
prove
the
two
last
the
Head
and
Foot
of
the
Body
of
Christ
are
as
far
distant
from
one
another
in
the
sacrament
,
as
they
are
in
Heaven
e.
g.
quantity
,
whiteness
,
softness
,
of
white
and
soft
nothings
that
sensible
species
may
exist
without
a
subject
I
must
answer
freely
and
ingenuously
,
that
I
have
not
learned
to
answer
such
Arguments
,
but
to
despise
them
.
I
have
not
learned
to
answer
such
Arguments
,
but
to
despise
them
.
Pope
Jone
Phil.
Bergomensis
John
the
th
,
Pope
,
&c.
The
Tradition
is
that
this
person
was
a
Woman
,
Oral
Tradition
In
detestation
of
whose
filthiness
,
and
to
perpetuate
the
memory
of
her
Name
,
the
Popes
even
to
this
day
going
on
Procession
with
the
People
and
the
Clergy
,
when
they
come
to
the
place
of
her
Travel
,
in
token
of
abomination
they
turn
from
it
,
and
go
a
by-way
;
and
being
past
that
detestable
place
,
they
return
into
the
way
,
and
finish
their
Procession
.
Practical
Tradition
.
And
for
avoiding
of
the
like
miscarriages
,
it
was
decreed
that
no
one
should
thereafter
be
admitted
into
St.
's
Chair
Porphyry
Chair
was
to
be
seen
in
the
Popes
Palace
.
Platina
thinks
that
this
Tradition
of
Pope
was
not
faithfully
delivered
to
Posterity
.
But
however
such
a
Tradition
there
is
first
Practical
Tradition
,
Platina
he
may
not
deny
it
the
Chair
rather
design'd
for
a
Stool
These
things
which
I
have
related
are
commonly
reported
,
yet
from
uncertain
and
obscure
Authors
:
Therefore
I
resolved
briefly
and
nakedly
to
set
them
down
,
lest
I
should
seem
too
obstinately
and
pertinaciously
to
have
omitted
that
which
almost
all
affirm
.
uncertain
and
obscure
general
Oral
Tradition
Practical
Tradition
Popes
,
Clergy
notorious
Custom
We
Metaphysitians
Scientifical
Brethren
Note-book
Learning
Church
of
Rome
Oral
Tradition
Christian
Faith
and
Discipline
are
contained
in
written
Books
and
unwritten
Traditions
,
therefore
they
do
receive
and
honour
the
Books
of
Scripture
and
also
Traditions
with
equal
pious
affection
and
reverence
Scripture
and
Tradition
Rule
of
Faith
.
Roman
Catechism
the
sum
of
the
Doctrine
delivered
to
the
Faithful
is
contained
in
the
Word
of
God
,
which
is
distributed
into
Scripture
and
Tradition
.
Bellarmine
That
the
Scripture
is
a
Rule
of
Faith
,
not
an
entire
but
partial
one
.
The
entire
Rule
is
the
Word
of
God
,
which
is
divided
into
two
partial
Rules
,
Scripture
,
and
Tradition
.
Word
of
God
Divine
Tradition
Divine
Tradition
word
of
mouth
to
the
Prelates
and
Priests
and
perfect
men
of
the
Church
.
That
the
Scripture
is
the
foundation
of
the
Christian
Doctrine
,
either
mediately
or
immediately
.
that
the
Authority
of
unwritten
Tradition
is
founded
in
general
on
these
sentences
of
the
Apostle
,
Hold
the
Traditions
,
&c.
The
things
which
thou
hast
heard
of
me
among
many
Witnesses
commit
to
faithful
men
,
the
Authority
of
the
Church
to
preserve
,
and
especially
to
declare
these
,
is
founded
in
this
Proposition
,
That
the
Church
is
the
pillar
and
ground
of
Truth
.
primary
Rule
of
Faith
the
Scripture
We
acknowledg
the
H.
Scripture
to
be
a
most
perfect
Rule
,
for
as
much
as
a
Writing
can
be
a
Rule
;
we
only
deny
that
it
excludes
,
either
Divine
Tradition
,
though
it
be
unwritten
,
or
an
external
Judg
to
keep
,
to
propose
,
to
interpret
it
,
unwritten
Tradition
Oral
Tradition
We
do
not
distinguish
Tradition
from
the
written
Word
,
because
Tradition
is
not
written
by
any
,
or
in
any
Book
or
Writing
;
but
because
it
is
not
written
in
the
Srripture
or
Bible
;
Bellarmine
interpreting
of
Scripture
There
is
a
great
and
plain
distinction
between
a
Judg
and
a
Rule
.
For
as
in
a
Kingdom
the
Judg
hath
his
Rule
to
follow
,
which
are
the
received
Laws
and
Customs
;
which
are
not
fit
or
able
to
declare
,
and
be
Judges
to
themselves
,
but
that
Office
must
belong
to
a
living
Judg
:
So
the
Holy
Scripture
is
and
may
be
a
Rule
,
but
cannot
be
a
Judg.
matters
of
Faith
Civil
matters
Scripture
is
not
the
only
Rule
of
Faith
Oral
Tradition
only
Christians
The
entire
Rule
of
faith
is
contained
not
only
in
Scripture
,
but
likewise
in
unwritten
Tradition
.
They
speak
ill
who
teach
that
some
things
are
known
in
the
Church
from
Scripture
,
some
by
Tradition
.
That
if
one
should
believe
all
the
Articles
of
the
Catholick
Faith
,
for
this
reason
because
he
thought
they
were
all
expresly
revealed
in
Scripture
,
or
implicitely
contained
so
as
they
might
be
deduced
from
thence
,
and
would
not
have
believed
them
had
he
not
judged
that
they
might
be
evinced
from
Scripture
;
yet
this
man
could
be
no
true
Catholick
:
Because
we
must
receive
as
coming
to
us
by
Tradition
;
for
only
by
this
means
(
excluding
the
Scriptures
)
Christ
hath
appointed
revealed
Truths
to
be
received
and
communicated
.
Authority
of
Tradition
it
was
founded
in
Scripture
Rule
of
Faith
small
party
their
Divines
who
resolve
Faith
according
to
the
common
Opinion
,
do
inevitably
fall
into
that
shameful
Circle
because
they
dare
not
build
their
Faith
upon
the
natural
evidence
and
certainty
of
Tradition
.
common
Opinion
does
not
differ
from
the
Opinion
of
those
who
resolve
their
Faith
into
the
private
Spirit
of
the
absurdest
Sects
to
suffer
all
the
punishment
that
is
due
to
Calumniators
,
if
the
Roman
Divines
do
not
hold
the
same
Rule
of
Faith
with
the
Calvinists
,
and
all
the
absurdest
Sects
.
Rule
of
Faith
infallible
Holiness
Shall
we
endure
these
men
to
sit
as
Censors
and
Judges
of
Faith
,
who
agree
with
Hereticks
in
the
very
first
Principle
which
distinguishes
Catholicks
from
Hereticks
?
These
are
thy
gods
upon
these
thou
dependest
,
whil'st
prating
Ignorance
triumphs
in
the
Roman
Colledg
.
That
few
sound
parts
are
left
uninfected
with
this
Plague
of
Scepticism
that
this
is
an
universal
Gangrene
that
there
are
but
few
that
go
the
way
of
Demonstration
,
and
these
are
either
wearied
out
,
or
else
live
retiredly
,
or
despair
of
any
remedy
of
these
things
.
his
Traditionary
Brethren
That
the
true
Divines
dare
not
profess
their
knowledg
,
lest
they
should
be
exposed
by
the
Sophisters
to
the
derision
and
scorn
either
of
their
Judges
or
of
the
People
.
present
Church
sole
Rule
of
Faith
.
their
Church
containing
things
manifestly
Heretical
,
erroneous
in
the
Faith
,
rash
,
scandalous
,
seditious
,
and
false
respectively
,
That
Oral
Tradition
is
the
only
Rule
of
Faith
.
Roman
Catholick
Principle
(
That
Oral
Tradition
is
the
sole
Rule
of
Faith
)
that
Church
at
the
present
very
many
of
their
School-men
maintain
that
Tradition
is
necessary
only
for
some
Points
,
not
clearly
expressed
in
Scripture
,
whence
it
seems
to
follow
that
they
build
not
the
whole
Body
of
their
Faith
upon
Tradition
:
there
is
a
vast
difference
betwixt
relying
on
Tradition
,
and
saying
or
thinking
we
d●
so
,
self-evident
to
all
,
even
to
the
rude
Vulgar
as
to
its
ruling
power
only
Rule
this
Principle
,
That
Contradictions
cannot
be
true
at
once
,
and
civil
actions
proceed
as
if
they
owned
it
if
we
look
narrowly
into
the
bottom
of
our
hearts
,
we
shall
discover
the
natural
method
of
Tradition
to
have
unawares
setled
our
Judgments
concerning
Faith
;
however
when
our
other
Concerns
awake
design
in
us
,
we
protest
against
it
,
and
seem
perhaps
to
our
unreflecting
selves
to
embrace
and
hold
to
the
meer
guidance
of
the
Letter
of
Scripture
.
holders
to
Tradition
may
seem
perhaps
to
our
unreflecting
selves
Arguments
;
or
as
he
(
good
man
)
unfortunately
calls
them
Demonstrations
obliged
to
bend
their
brains
to
study
his
Book
with
that
severity
as
they
would
do
an
Euclid
open
the
incomparable
strength
of
the
Churches
humane
Authority
,
and
the
Advantages
which
accrue
to
it
by
the
supernatural
assistances
of
the
Holy
Ghost
:
Fools
,
leaving
him
the
way
of
Reason
and
Principles
those
who
judg
of
things
per
altissimas
causas
intends
no
Confutation
of
those
Authors
Yet
if
any
will
be
so
charitable
as
to
judg
he
hath
solidly
confuted
because
he
hath
radically
and
fundamentally
overthrown
all
their
Arguments
,
intelligent
Reader
(
for
he
writes
to
none
but
such
It
would
require
a
large
Volume
to
unfold
particularly
how
each
virtue
contributes
to
shew
the
inerrable
indeficiency
of
Tradition
,
and
how
the
Principles
of
almost
each
Science
are
concerned
in
demonstrating
its
Certainty
:
lends
her
Numbring
and
Multiplying
Faculty
,
to
scan
the
vast
Number
of
Testifiers
her
Proportions
to
shew
a
kind
of
infinite
strength
of
Certitude
in
Christian
Tradition
,
above
those
Atté
stations
which
breed
Certainty
in
humane
Affairs
her
skill
to
frame
and
make
us
see
the
connexions
it
has
with
the
Principles
of
our
Vnderstanding
her
Laws
of
Motion
and
Action
her
first
Principle
that
nothing
is
done
by
a
cognoscitive
Nature
,
and
that
the
Body
of
Traditionary
Doctrine
is
most
conformable
to
Practical
Reason
clears
the
Impossibility
of
an
revolt
from
Points
so
descended
and
held
so
Sacred
shew
this
to
be
the
best
way
imaginable
to
convey
down
such
a
Law
as
it
concerns
every
man
to
be
skilful
in
engages
the
Essences
of
Things
,
and
the
very
notion
of
which
fixes
every
Truth
,
so
establishing
the
scientifical
Knowledges
which
spring
from
each
particular
Nature
by
their
first
Causes
or
Reasons
exempt
from
change
or
motion
.
demonstrates
it
most
worthy
God
and
most
conducive
to
bring
Mankind
to
Bliss
.
Lastly
,
evidences
the
total
uncertainty
of
any
thing
concerning
Faith
if
this
can
be
uncertain
,
and
makes
use
of
all
the
rest
to
establish
the
Certainty
of
this
S.
writes
to
none
but
intelligent
Readers
second
,
viz.
None
can
with
right
pretend
to
be
a
Church
but
the
followers
of
Tradition
,
No
company
of
men
hang
together
like
a
Body
of
a
Christian
Commonwealth
or
Church
,
but
that
which
adheres
to
Tradition
.
st.
Secondly
no
arguing
against
Tradition
from
Scripture
,
or
the
Authority
of
the
Church
,
or
Fathers
and
Councils
,
or
from
History
and
Testimonial
Writings
,
or
from
contrary
Tradition
,
or
Reason
,
or
any
Instances
whatsoever
That
Tradition
is
certain
there
is
no
possibility
of
arguing
at
all
against
Tradition
rightly
understood
,
or
the
living
voyce
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
with
any
shew
of
Reason
.
That
no
solid
Argument
from
Reason
can
be
brought
against
Tradition
:
d
Corollary
solid
shew
substantial
shadow
The
knowledg
of
Traditions
Certainty
is
the
first
knowledg
or
Principle
in
Controversial
Divinity
without
which
nothing
is
known
or
knowable
in
that
Science
.
self
evident
first
Principle
i.
e.
begging
the
question
first
Principle
in
Controversie
Sure-footing
and
its
Corollaries
may
put
him
out
of
his
Wits
Oral
Tradition
general
Rumor
ipso
facto
cut
off
from
the
Root
of
Faith
,
in
the
way
of
Reason
and
Principles
.
Note-book
Learning
not
much
a
Friend
to
Father
White
faulty
Heads
Discourse
to
look
with
a
contingent
Face
.
thin
and
sleight
in
Scripture-Citations
That
the
Catholick
should
never
undertake
to
convince
his
Adversary
out
of
Scripture
,
this
were
to
strengthen
his
Opponent
in
his
own
Ground
and
Principle
,
That
all
is
to
be
proved
out
of
Scripture
a
Beetle
is
to
cut
withall
This
shall
be
to
you
a
direct
way
,
so
that
Fools
cannot
err
in
it
.
This
is
my
Covenant
with
them
,
saith
the
Lord
;
my
Spirit
which
is
in
thee
,
and
my
words
which
I
have
put
in
thy
mouth
shall
not
depart
from
thy
mouth
,
and
from
the
mouth
of
thy
Seed
,
and
from
the
mouth
of
thy
Seeds
seed
from
henceforth
for
ever
.
I
will
give
my
Law
in
their
bowels
,
and
in
their
hearts
will
I
write
it
:
Tradition
to
be
the
only
Rule
of
Faith
,
Philosophers
Stone
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
Rule
of
Faith
.
shameful
a
Circle
Tabulae
Suffragiales
he
is
a
bad
Transcriber
he
will
only
mention
three
in
several
Ages
.
First
Synod
of
Lateran
Synod
?
We
all
confess
unanimously
and
consequently
,
with
one
heart
and
mouth
,
the
Tenets
and
Sayings
of
the
Holy
Fathers
;
adding
nothing
,
substracting
nothing
of
those
things
which
are
delivered
us
by
them
;
and
we
believe
as
the
Fathers
have
believed
,
we
Preach
so
as
they
have
taught
.
oral
delivery
word
of
mouth
Rule
of
Faith
We
have
received
this
Doctrine
,
we
have
been
taught
so
,
we
hold
this
Catholick
Tradition
,
Faith
and
Confession
.
Oral
Tradition
Confession
of
Faith
Arian
Confession
Sardica
did
not
so
much
as
add
one
word
or
tittle
,
no
nor
so
much
as
explain
any
thing
in
the
Nicene
Faith
.
Testifier
delivers
down
received
them
by
hand
th
General
Council
uninterrupted
Tradition
immodest
Stories
th
)
of
Apparitions
Womens
Dreams
general
Council
Western
Council
Charles
the
Great
Tradition
of
Image-worship
a
most
stinking
Tradition
we
see
General
Councils
relying
on
the
Teaching
of
the
Fathers
or
fore-going
Church
,
and
on
the
Churches
Tradition
as
their
Rule
,
see
General
Councils
th
.
General
Council
General
Councils
After
ancient
Councils
let
us
give
a
glance
at
Fathers
.
Glance
That
who
seeks
Tradition
in
the
Fathers
,
and
to
convince
it
by
their
Testimony
,
takes
an
hard
task
upon
him
,
As
in
other
Points
,
so
even
in
this
of
the
Resolution
of
Faith
,
as
Doctors
seem
to
differ
now-adays
,
so
might
the
Fathers
also
.
Rule
of
Faith
.
by
Succession
from
the
Apostles
oral
Tradition
Scripture
,
This
is
a
great
Triumph
of
our
Faith
,
to
demonstrate
our
Opinions
so
strongly
,
and
to
overthrow
the
contrary
by
Testimonies
from
Scripture
.
Oral
Tradition
Irenaeus
,
But
what
if
the
Apostles
had
not
left
us
the
Scriptures
,
ought
we
not
to
follow
the
Order
of
Tradition
,
&
c.
left
us
the
Scriptures
Irenaeus
,
Lib.
(
Et
rursus
)
Again
,
&c.
Oral
Tradition
Oral
Tradition
Churches
Tradition
by
order
of
Succession
,
viz.
As
for
I
have
nothing
to
say
of
him
but
that
he
is
not
a
man
of
the
Church
.
If
thou
beest
but
a
Christian
,
believe
what
is
Oral
Tradition
Tertullian
)
by
what
authority
dost
thou
do
this
?
If
thou
be
a
Prophet
,
foretell
something
;
If
an
Apostle
,
preach
publickly
;
If
Apostolical
,
be
of
the
Apostle's
mind
;
If
no
more
but
a
Christian
,
believe
what
is
delivered
.
Faith
comes
down
from
our
Ancestors
,
delivered
to
us
written
Tradition
the
Orthodox
Church
was
not
of
that
mind
,
our
Fathers
did
not
think
so
.
Tradition
is
held
by
him
a
sole
sufficient
Rule
of
Faith
,
and
the
only
Answer
to
be
given
why
we
reject
Points
from
Faith
,
&c.
the
only
Answer
to
be
given
,
But
lest
from
our
being
wholly
silent
,
these
Inventers
of
evil
things
should
take
occasion
to
be
more
impudent
,
it
will
be
good
to
recite
a
few
passages
out
of
Scripture
,
&c.
sufficient
Rule
of
Faith
That
Faith
which
was
professed
by
the
Fathers
in
that
Council
(
viz.
according
to
the
Scriptures
,
is
to
me
sufficient
,
Clem.
Alezand
.
As
if
one
of
a
Man
becomes
a
Beast
,
like
those
infected
with
poyson
;
so
he
hath
forfeited
his
being
a
Man
of
God
and
faithful
to
our
Lord
,
who
spurns
against
Ecclesiastical
Tradition
,
and
leaps
into
Opinions
of
human
Election
.
Men
who
deal
in
matters
of
highest
importance
must
needs
commit
great
Errors
,
if
they
do
not
take
and
hold
the
RVLE
OF
TRVTH
from
Truth
it self
.
For
such
men
having
once
deviated
from
the
right
way
,
do
likewise
err
in
most
particulars
;
probably
because
they
have
not
the
Faculty
of
distinguishing
Truths
and
Falshoods
perfectly
exercised
to
choose
what
ought
to
be
chosen
.
For
if
they
had
this
,
they
would
be
ruled
by
the
Divine
SCRIPTVRES
.
[
Therefore
as
if
any
of
Mankind
should
become
a
Beast
,
in
such
sort
as
those
who
were
bewitched
by
even
so
he
hath
lost
his
being
a
Man
of
God
and
abiding
faithful
to
the
Lord
,
who
hath
spurned
against
the
Tradition
of
the
Church
,
and
skipt
into
the
Opinions
of
human
Sects
but
he
that
hath
returned
from
his
Errors
,
and
hearkned
to
the
SCRIPTVRES
,
and
conformed
his
life
to
the
Truth
,
is
as
it
were
advanced
from
a
Man
to
a
God
.
indemonstrable
Principle
naughty
Boys
shut
out
their
School-master
,
so
these
drive
the
Prophecies
out
of
the
Church
,
suspecting
that
they
will
chide
and
admonish
them
;
and
they
patch
together
abundance
of
falshoods
and
fictions
that
they
may
seem
RATIONALLY
not
to
admit
the
Scriptures
.
they
oppose
the
Divine
Tradition
with
human
Doctrines
by
other
Traditions
[
delivered
from
hand
to
hand
]
that
they
may
establish
a
Sect
or
Heresie
.
they
adulterate
the
Truth
,
and
steal
the
Rule
of
Faith
,
but
for
ORAL
Frauds
they
shall
have
WRITTEN
Punishments
.
Divine
Tradition
unwritten
Tradition
Rule
of
Faith
receive
and
honour
,
with
equal
pious
affection
and
reverence
,
the
Books
of
Scripture
and
unwritten
Traditions
.
as
if
an
Apostle
or
Evangelist
were
present
,
and
therefore
no
wonder
they
honour
Scripture-Testimony
so
as
to
put
it
before
Tradition
oral
Tradition
Labyrinthus
Cantuariensis
That
the
Companion
,
that
he
would
leave
them
a
Monument
in
writing
of
that
Doctrine
which
had
been
deliver'd
to
them
by
word
of
mouth
.
And
this
was
the
occasion
of
the
writing
of
St.
And
when
did
understand
that
this
Work
was
publish'd
(
being
suggested
by
the
Divine
Revelation
of
the
Holy
Spirit
)
it
is
said
he
was
very
much
pleased
with
the
ready
and
earnest
desire
of
those
Persons
;
and
that
by
his
Authority
he
confirmed
this
Writing
,
to
the
end
that
it
might
be
every
where
read
in
the
Church
.
That
of
all
the
Disciples
they
two
only
have
left
monuments
in
Writing
;
of
whom
it
is
also
reported
that
they
betook
themselves
to
write
,
being
drawn
thereto
by
necessity
.
after
he
had
preached
the
Word
of
God
to
the
and
was
resolved
to
go
to
other
Nations
,
wrote
his
in
the
Language
of
his
Countrey
;
and
thus
by
the
diligence
and
pains
of
Writing
,
did
abundantly
supply
the
the
want
of
his
presence
to
those
whom
he
left
.
And
when
had
published
their
Gospel
,
it
is
reported
that
(
who
had
always
used
to
preach
the
Word
without
writing
it
)
being
at
length
wrought
upon
by
the
same
reason
did
betake
himself
to
write
.
oral
Tradition
That
the
Disciples
,
who
immediately
succeeded
the
Apostles
,
as
they
travelled
to
preach
the
Gospel
to
those
who
had
not
yet
heard
the
Word
of
Faith
,
did
with
great
of
the
Holy
Evangelists
as
he
travelled
towards
(
where
he
was
to
suffer
)
exhorted
the
Churches
of
every
City
to
hold
fast
the
Tradition
of
the
Apostles
;
which
(
as
also
by
Writing
he
testified
)
for
greater
security
to
be
oral
Tradition
who
were
of
the
Heresie
of
said
that
all
their
the
same
things
which
they
also
did
;
and
had
preserved
the
unto
the
time
of
Bishop
of
whose
Successor
corrupted
it
.
And
this
would
have
great
probability
,
were
it
not
first
of
all
contradicted
by
the
Scripture
;
and
next
if
there
did
not
remain
the
Writings
of
other
Brethren
much
more
ancient
than
's
time
in
the
Books
of
all
whom
Christs
Divinity
is
acknowledged
.
the
outward
Letter
of
Scripture
by
Tradition
and
Sense
written
in
mens
hearts
.
the
Hereticks
were
wont
to
say
,
we
are
the
Sons
of
the
Wise
,
who
did
from
the
beginning
deliver
down
to
us
the
Apostolical
Doctrine
that
the
true
Sons
of
adhere
to
the
Scripture
All
things
in
the
Divine
Scriptures
are
plain
and
straight
.
Whatsoever
things
are
necessary
are
manifest
.
Not
that
those
things
which
are
necessary
to
Salvation
are
so
hard
to
be
come
at
:
But
when
one
hath
there
attained
Faith
without
which
there
is
no
pious
and
right
living
,
there
are
besides
,
many
dark
and
mysterious
things
,
The
manner
of
speech
in
Scripture
how
easie
is
it
to
all
,
though
few
can
penetrate
to
the
bottom
of
it
?
Those
things
which
it
plainly
contains
,
it
speaks
without
disguise
like
a
familiar
Friend
to
the
heart
of
the
learned
and
unlearned
.
Among
those
things
which
are
plainly
set
down
in
Scripture
,
all
those
things
are
to
be
found
which
comprehend
Faith
and
good
Manners
.
there
would
be
no
way
to
understand
them
.
he
would
bring
such
proofs
as
no
man
could
gain-say
:
Attend
to
what
I
shall
recite
out
of
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
proofs
which
need
not
to
be
explained
,
but
only
to
be
heard
.
mutual
oppositions
,
especially
in
Divine
things
the
Doctrine
of
the
Holy
Spirit
Recorded
in
Writing
;
For
the
Books
of
the
Evangelists
and
Apostles
,
and
the
Oracles
of
the
old
Prophets
,
do
evidently
teach
us
what
we
ought
to
think
of
the
Divine
Majesty
.
Therefore
laying
aside
all
seditious
contention
,
let
us
determine
the
matters
in
question
by
Testimonies
out
of
the
Divine
Writings
.
Divinity
of
Christ
Rule
of
Faith
.
The
method
of
our
Salvation
we
have
not
known
by
any
other
but
those
men
by
whom
the
Gospel
came
to
us
,
which
then
they
preached
,
but
afterwards
by
the
Will
of
God
delivered
it
to
us
in
the
Scriptures
,
to
be
for
the
future
the
foundation
and
pillar
of
our
Faith
.
seems
to
think
that
the
Resolution
of
Faith
was
to
be
made
into
Scripture
,
and
not
into
Tradition
.
Whence
have
you
that
Tradition
?
Comes
it
from
the
Authority
of
the
Lord
,
and
of
the
Gospel
,
or
from
the
Epistles
of
the
Apostles
?
For
God
testifies
that
we
are
to
do
those
things
which
are
written
,
If
it
be
commanded
in
the
Gospel
,
or
contained
in
the
Epistles
or
Acts
of
the
Apostles
,
then
let
us
observe
it
as
a
Divine
and
Holy
Tradition
.
for
regulating
his
Faith
only
according
to
those
things
which
are
written
.
He
who
refuses
this
is
Antichrist
,
and
who
dissembles
in
it
is
Anathema
.
the
Scriptures
in
lasting
Tables
Thus
we
received
it
from
our
Fathers
This
is
not
enough
for
us
,
that
it
is
the
Tradition
of
the
Fathers
,
for
they
followed
the
Authority
of
the
Scriptures
,
making
its
Testimonies
the
Principles
upon
which
they
built
.
viz.
By
attending
to
the
Faith
delivered
,
and
looking
upon
all
that
disagrees
from
that
as
adulterate
.
For
as
those
who
give
Rules
do
not
put
men
upon
a
curious
enquiry
after
many
measures
,
but
bid
them
keep
to
the
Rule
given
;
so
is
it
in
Opinions
.
But
no
body
will
attend
to
the
Scriptures
;
if
we
did
,
we
should
not
only
not
fall
into
Errors
our selves
,
but
also
rescue
those
that
are
deceived
.
If
we
would
be
throughly
conversant
in
the
Scriptures
,
we
should
be
instructed
both
in
right
Opinions
and
a
good
life
.
Sects
of
Christians
it
will
be
easie
to
judge
if
we
believe
the
Scriptures
,
because
these
are
plain
and
true
;
If
any
one
agree
with
these
,
he
is
a
Christian
;
if
he
contradict
them
,
he
is
far
from
this
Rule
.
Divine
Balance
the
Holy
Scripture
fixeth
the
Rule
of
our
Doctrine
.
Neither
ought
I
now
to
alledg
the
Council
,
nor
thou
that
of
for
neither
am
I
bound
to
the
Authority
of
the
one
,
nor
thou
of
the
other
.
Let
us
both
contest
with
the
Authorities
of
Scripture
which
are
Wtinesses
common
to
us
both
.
Let
them
if
they
can
demonstrate
their
Church
not
by
the
Talk
and
Rumors
[
or
of
the
not
by
the
Councils
of
their
own
Bishops
,
not
by
the
Books
of
their
Disputers
,
not
by
deceitful
Miracles
,
but
by
the
prescript
of
the
Law
,
Prophets
,
i.
e.
by
all
the
Canonical
Authorities
of
the
Holy
Books
.
Of
those
things
,
which
without
the
Authorities
and
Testimonies
of
the
Scripture
men
invent
of
their
own
heads
as
from
Apostolical
Tradition
,
they
are
smitten
with
the
Sword
of
God
.
Theophilus
Alexandr
the
Rule
firm
foundations
of
Doctrine
It
comes
from
a
Demonical
spirit
that
men
follow
the
Sophisms
of
humane
minds
,
and
think
any
thing
Divine
that
wants
the
Authority
of
Scripture
.
the
inflexible
Rule
of
Truth
We
have
have
learned
the
Rule
of
Opinions
from
the
Divine
Scripture
.
the
Tryal
of
Doctrines
In
the
Tryal
of
Doctrines
that
which
is
first
and
principally
to
be
considered
is
,
Whether
a
Doctrine
be
conformable
to
the
H.
Scripture
,
&c.
The
reason
of
this
is
,
because
the
Scripture
is
deliver'd
to
us
as
a
SVFFICIENT
and
INFALLIBLE
RVLE
for
the
Goverment
of
the
whole
Ecclesiastical
Body
and
its
Members
to
the
end
of
the
world
.
So
that
it
is
such
an
Art
,
such
a
Rule
or
Exemplar
,
that
any
other
Doctrine
which
is
not
conformable
to
it
,
is
to
be
renounc'd
as
Heretical
,
or
to
be
accounted
suspicious
,
or
not
at
all
appertaining
to
Religion
.
Again
,
It
is
evident
how
pernicious
the
rejection
of
the
H.
Scripture
is
,
and
how
certain
a
preparatory
for
the
reception
of
Antichrist
.
Once
more
,
What
mischief
,
what
danger
,
what
confusion
hath
happen'd
thorough
contempt
of
the
Scripture
,
which
sure
is
sufficient
for
the
Government
of
the
Church
(
else
Christ
must
have
been
an
imperfect
Law-giver
)
let
us
ask
Experience
,
&c.
As
in
Philosophy
truth
is
discovered
by
reducing
things
to
their
first
and
self-evident
Principles
;
so
in
the
Writings
deliver'd
by
the
H.
Doctors
,
Truth
is
discover'd
as
to
matters
of
Faith
,
by
reducing
them
to
the
Canonical
Scriptures
.
Infallibility
,
Indefectibility
,
Self-evidence
J.
S.
Ed.
Stillingfleet
Henry
Mortlock
who
never
flag
below
the
sphere
of
Science
If
in
his
cursory
view
of
two
Chapters
of
my
Book
he
had
quite
lost
me
such
as
Hammond
,
and
the
Disswader
,
and
Pierce
,
instead
of
me
we
did
not
talk
out
of
nature
or
things
,
but
words
and
imagination
.
cropt
so
much
of
the
victory
due
to
anothers
learning
and
industry
,
which
a
rational
understanding
,
that
would
be
true
to
it self
,
could
not
settle
or
rely
on
.
judicious
Author
Labyrinthus
Cantuariensis
is
the
Post
he
hath
taken
upon
him
to
explicate
further
and
defend
.
explicating
a
Post
for
opposing
the
infallibility
of
oral
tradition
,
to
doctrinal
infallibility
in
Pope
and
Councils
.
Holy
Ghost
judicious
Author
Labyrinthus
Cantuariensis
on
some
signal
occasions
who
it
is
that
stumbles
at
the
Threshold
Whether
am
I
bound
to
believe
what
the
present
Church
delivers
to
be
infallible
I
understand
him
not
I
cannot
help
that
infallibly
true
because
fallibility
&
infallibility
belong
to
the
knowing
power
,
or
the
persons
that
have
it
,
and
not
to
the
object
.
certainly
true
not
only
because
the
present
Church
cannot
be
deceived
in
what
the
Church
of
the
former
age
believed
,
but
because
the
Church
in
no
age
could
conspire
against
her
knowledg
to
deceive
that
age
immediately
following
in
matter
of
fact
,
evident
in
a
manner
to
the
whole
world
.
How
can
you
assure
me
the
present
Church
obliges
me
to
believe
nothing
but
only
what
,
and
so
far
as
it
received
from
the
former
Church
?
That
this
appears
by
her
manifest
practice
,
never
refusing
communion
to
any
man
,
that
could
approve
himself
to
believe
all
the
former
age
did
.
What
evidence
can
you
bring
to
convince
me
both
that
the
Church
always
observed
this
rule
,
and
could
never
be
deceived
in
it
?
that
nothing
was
to
be
embraced
,
but
what
was
derived
by
tradition
from
the
Apostles
Greek
Church
Greek
Church
but
that
men
in
all
ages
had
eyes
,
ears
,
and
other
senses
,
also
common
reason
,
and
as
much
memory
as
to
remember
their
own
names
and
frequently
inculcated
actions
.
If
you
disprove
this
,
I
doubt
we
have
lost
mankind
,
the
subject
we
speak
of
;
and
till
you
disprove
it
,
neither
I
,
nor
any
man
in
his
wits
can
doubt
,
that
this
rule
depending
on
testifying
,
that
is
,
sense
or
experience
,
can
possibly
permit
men
to
be
deceivable
.
Greek
Church
than
permit
men
to
be
deceivable
losing
mankind
in
this
and
certainly
had
eyes
,
and
ears
,
and
common
sense
as
other
men
have
,
viz.
Christs
passion
,
resurrection
nature
of
his
Kingdom
Christian
Religion
Christian
Religion
in
faece
Romuli
Christian
Church
Christian
Religion
Christian
Church
because
no
age
of
the
Church
could
conspire
against
her
knowledg
to
deceive
that
age
immediately
following
,
in
matter
of
fact
,
evident
in
a
manner
to
the
whole
world
.
i.
e.
dead
letters
unsenc't
characters
wordish
testimonies
life
,
sense
sacredness
,
concern
,
necessity
Christian
doctrine
sacredness
,
necessity
,
concern
,
and
miraculously
attestedness
Invocation
of
Saints
,
Purgatory
Transubstantiation
,
Supremacy
,
necessary
articles
private
opinions
matters
of
faith
private
opinions
private
opinion
It
being
evident
,
that
we
have
but
two
ways
of
ordinary
knowledg
,
by
acts
of
our
soul
,
or
operations
on
our
body
,
that
is
,
by
reason
and
experience
;
the
former
of
which
belongs
to
Speculators
or
Doctors
,
the
second
to
Deliverers
of
what
was
received
,
or
Testifiers
.
particular
opinions
that
private
speculations
are
in
such
cases
where
there
is
no
matter
of
faith
at
all
,
Popes
infallibility
oral
tradition
oral
tradition
oral
tradition
own
principles
Invocation
of
Saints
,
Purgatory
,
Transubstantiation
,
&c.
private
opinators
that
Children
are
not
bound
to
believe
what
barely
their
Parents
,
or
any
other
number
of
persons
might
deliver
as
matters
of
faith
,
but
what
the
whole
Church
of
every
age
delivers
.
essential
Church
New
Testament
Apostles
Creed
oral
tradition
sacred
Books
Council
infallible
Transubstantiation
,
Supremacy
,
Invocation
p●ivate
opinions
private
opinions
corrupt
practices
laudable
pieces
of
devotion
self-evident
principle
,
that
no
error
can
come
into
the
Church
,
unless
one
age
conspire
to
deceive
the
next
in
a
matter
of
fact
,
evident
in
a
manner
to
the
whole
world
.
domestick
adversaries
Roman
Church
For
I
see
the
Roman
Church
asserts
,
that
things
may
be
in
one
age
,
which
were
not
in
another
;
at
least
Popes
and
Councils
challenge
this
;
and
this
is
the
common
doctrine
maintained
there
,
and
others
are
looked
on
as
no
members
of
their
Church
who
assert
the
contrary
;
but
as
persons
at
least
meritoriously
,
if
not
actually
excommunicate
.
Where
then
shall
I
satisfie
my self
,
what
the
sense
of
your
Church
is
,
as
to
this
particular
?
Must
I
believe
a
very
few
persons
,
whom
the
rest
disown
as
heretical
and
seditious
?
or
ought
I
not
rather
to
take
the
judgment
of
the
greatest
and
most
approved
persons
of
that
Church
?
And
these
disown
any
such
doctrine
;
but
assert
,
that
the
Church
may
determine
things
which
were
not
before
S.
begs
leave
to
distinguish
the
words
which
may
either
mean
Christian
faith
,
or
points
of
faith
taught
by
Christ
;
and
then
he
grants
,
't
is
non-sense
to
say
,
they
can
be
in
one
age
,
and
not
in
another
.
Or
may
mean
obligatory
to
be
believed
.
In
this
latter
sense
none
I
think
denies
things
may
be
in
one
age
and
not
in
another
;
in
the
former
sense
none
holds
it
.
What
's
now
become
of
your
difficulty
?
I
believe
you
are
in
some
wonderment
,
and
think
I
elude
it
rather
then
answer
it
;
I
shall
endeavour
to
unperplex
you
.
unperplex
me
divine
revelation
Christian
doctrine
de
fide
oral
tradition
oral
tradition
unperplex
me
unperplex
me
that
Christianity
aims
not
to
make
us
beasts
,
but
more
perfectly
men
;
and
the
perfection
of
our
manhood
consists
in
the
use
of
our
reasons
.
are
of
two
sorts
;
first
such
as
need
no
more
but
common
sense
to
deduce
them
;
the
others
are
such
as
need
the
maxims
of
some
science
got
by
speculation
to
infer
them
;
and
these
are
Theological
conclusions
:
The
former
sort
,
the
Church
is
necessitated
to
make
use
of
upon
occasion
,
when
any
Heretick
questions
those
,
and
the
whole
point
of
faith
it self
,
of
which
they
were
a
part
;
as
in
the
case
of
the
about
Christs
having
two
wills
Theological
conclusions
de
fide
consequences
as
common
sence
draws
common
sence
common
sense
common
sense
two
natures
two
wills
is
only
to
put
the
faith
out
of
danger
of
being
equivocated
.
Socinian
doctrine
eternal
existence
eternal
existence
immediate
consequences
common
sense
infallible
proponent
common
sense
that
none
can
have
an
obligation
to
believe
what
they
have
not
an
obligation
to
think
of
;
and
in
some
age
the
generality
of
the
faithful
have
no
occasion
,
nor
consequently
obligation
to
mind
,
reflect
,
or
think
on
those
propositions
involved
in
the
main
stock
of
faith
.
From
whence
,
it
follows
,
that
a
thing
may
be
or
obligatory
to
be
believed
in
one
age
,
and
not
in
another
.
i.
e.
four
first
General
Councils
how
the
Church
can
have
power
to
oblige
the
generality
to
belief
of
such
a
point
.
she
obliges
them
to
believe
the
main
point
of
faith
,
by
virtue
of
traditions
,
being
a
self-evident
rule
,
and
these
implied
points
by
virtue
of
their
being
self-evidently
connected
with
those
main
and
perpetually
used
points
,
so
that
the
vulgar
can
be
rationally
and
connaturally
made
capable
of
this
their
obligation
.
self-evident
rule
a
new
obligation
to
believe
something
self-evidently
connected
with
the
former
points
,
vulgar
understandings
rationally
and
connaturally
that
whole
is
greater
than
any
of
those
parts
self-evidently
connected
self-evident
riddles
unintelligible
demonstrations
Roman
Church
the
Government
of
our
Church
is
still
justified
to
be
sweet
,
and
according
to
right
nature
,
and
yet
forcible
and
efficacious
.
because
men
are
obliged
to
believe
no
implied
points
,
but
such
as
are
self-evidently
connected
with
the
main
ones
,
the
Government
of
the
Roman
Church
is
sweet
,
and
according
to
right
nature
,
&c.
but
the
main
points
on
the
account
of
a
self-evident
rule
,
and
implied
points
by
reason
of
self-evident
connexion
with
the
former
.
self-evident
rule
self-evidently
connected
Transubstantiation
,
Purgatory
,
Supremacy
Roman
Church
,
&c.
self-evident
connexion
Apostles
Creed
Roman
Catholick
how
these
points
descended
by
a
kind
of
tradition
,
they
were
never
thought
of
or
reflected
on
by
the
generality
,
till
the
Church
took
occasion
to
explain
them
.
silent
tradition
self-evident
connexion
constant
Tradition
Apostles
times
that
I
act
like
a
Politician
,
and
would
conquer
them
by
first
dividing
them
,
and
making
odious
comparisons
between
two
parties
of
Divines
.
But
to
shew
us
how
little
they
differ
,
he
distinguishes
them
,
as
faithful
,
and
as
private
discoursers
;
in
the
former
notion
,
they
all
hold
the
same
divinely
constituted
Church-Government
,
and
the
same
self-evident
rule
of
faith
;
but
as
private
discoursers
he
acknowledges
they
differ
in
the
explication
of
their
belief
.
divinely
constituted
oral
tradition
self-evident
rule
S.
they
are
all
as
faithful
agreed
in
it
,
but
as
discourses
they
differ
present
Church
Christian
faith
present
Church
dangerous
,
seditious
,
heretical
as
faithful
as
discoursers
self-evident
rule
undermining
Religion
Sonus
Succinae
that
the
doctrine
of
Pope
and
Councils
infallibility
tends
to
overthrow
the
certainty
of
Christian
faith
De
fide
&
Theol.
tract·
and
that
the
propagating
such
a
doctrine
is
a
greater
crime
than
burning
Temples
,
ravishing
the
sacred
Virgins
on
the
Altars
,
trampling
on
the
body
of
Christ
,
or
the
sending
the
Turk
or
Antichrist
into
Christian
Countreys
as
faithful
false
,
seditious
Tabulae
suffragiales
as
faithful
Roman
Church
as
faithful
ill
words
that
all
kind
of
heresie
doth
arise
from
hence
,
that
men
make
the
holy
Scripture
,
or
a
private
spirit
,
the
rule
of
faith
it
is
all
one
,
if
one
make
Councils
or
Pope
any
other
way
than
as
witnesses
to
be
the
authors
of
faith
.
For
,
this
is
to
subject
the
whole
Church
to
that
slavery
,
to
receive
any
errour
for
an
article
of
faith
,
which
they
shall
define
,
or
propose
any
other
way
then
as
witnesses
of
tradition
.
as
discoursers
Whites
Tabulae
suffragiales
I
am
not
aware
how
little
they
differ
even
as
Divines
.
as
bare
discoursers
though
some
speculators
attribute
to
the
Church
a
power
of
defining
things
not
held
before
,
yet
few
will
say
she
hath
new
revelations
or
new
articles
of
faith
.
if
the
doctrine
of
the
Popes
infallibility
were
not
true
,
Tabul
.
sufrag
.
p.
yet
it
ought
to
be
defended
because
it
was
for
the
interest
of
the
Church
of
new
articles
new
doctrine
new
article
of
faith
of
explicit
and
implicit
delivery
implicitly
delivered
oral
tradition
that
Pope
and
Councils
challenge
a
power
to
make
things
in
one
age
,
which
were
not
in
another
.
I
speak
it
in
common
,
and
prove
it
not
.
That
take
them
right
,
this
is
both
perfectly
innocent
,
and
unavoidably
necessary
to
a
Church
.
de
fide
as
faithful
de
fide
that
nothing
will
avail
me
but
this
,
if
a
Pope
and
Council
should
define
a
new
thing
,
and
declare
they
ground
themselves
on
new
lights
,
as
did
their
first
reformers
in
but
I
shall
find
no
such
fopperies
in
faith-definitions
made
by
the
Catholick
Church
.
her
reformers
grounded
themselves
on
new
lights
:
they
ground
themselves
on
new
lights
but
Pope
and
Councils
neither
define
new
things
,
nor
ground
themselves
on
them
:
they
ground
themselves
on
new
lights
,
infallible
assistance
the
Catholick
Roman
Church
that
I
am
at
an
end
of
my
argument
,
because
I
say
the
opinion
of
the
Pope
and
Councils
infallibility
is
the
common
doctrin
maintained
:
in
which
I
confound
the
Church
with
the
schools
,
or
some
private
opinaters
,
and
then
carp
at
those
mens
tenets
,
I
want
not
wit
to
know
that
no
sober
Catholick
holds
humane
deductions
the
rule
of
their
faith
,
schoolmen
definers
of
it
,
nor
the
schools
the
Tribunal
whence
to
propose
it
authoritatively
and
obligingly
to
the
generality
of
the
faithful
.
Roman
Church
oral
tradition
these
are
only
private
opinators
and
schoolmen
who
assert
the
contrary
doctrine
to
his
.
oral
trodition
Roman
Church
S.
a
private
opinator
meer
schoolman
he
was
no
Divine
scholastick
Pedants
present
Church
whether
I
never
heard
of
such
a
thing
as
the
Council
of
I
may
find
a
clear
solution
of
my
doubt
by
the
constant
procedure
of
that
most
grave
Synod
in
its
definitions
.
th
Session
That
Scripture
and
tradition
should
be
embraced
with
equal
piety
and
reverence
because
the
doctrine
of
faith
is
contain'd
partly
in
Scripture
,
partly
in
tradition
oral
tradition
compleat
rule
of
faith
oral
tradition
present
Church
ancient
faith
Roman
Catholicks
of
the
whole
Church
none
excepted
And
if
he
will
disavow
the
maintaining
any
point
,
or
affecting
any
way
which
is
not
assented
to
by
all
,
viz.
that
though
schoolmen
question
the
personal
infallibility
of
the
Pope
,
or
of
the
Roman
Clergy
,
nay
of
a
General
Council
,
yet
all
affirm
the
infallibility
of
tradition
,
or
the
living
voice
of
the
Church
essential
;
and
this
,
is
held
by
all
,
held
firmly
,
that
it
is
absolutely
infallible
universal
tradition
Church
essential
Church
essential
all
ages
that
all
of
their
Religion
own
the
Roman
Church
to
be
the
Church
essential
,
and
on
that
account
,
that
it
cannot
err
,
oral
tradition
infallible
assistance
it
is
held
by
all
held
firmly
tradition
infallible
present
Church
infallible
assistance
general
,
that
tradition
is
infallible
,
infallibility
,
viz.
that
no
age
could
conspire
to
deceive
the
next
.
Roman
Church
private
Opinators
Holy
Ghost
be
the
first
principle
of
controversie
,
infallibility
of
oral
tradition
that
formidable
structure
is
erecting
if
this
rises
apace
,
and
has
advanced
many
stories
in
a
small
time
,
to
answer
all
those
If
's
which
follow
In
case
the
Church
may
determine
things
which
were
not
before
,
whether
the
present
Church
doth
then
believe
as
the
precedent
did
or
no
?
if
it
did
,
how
comes
any
thing
to
be
which
was
not
before
?
if
it
did
not
,
what
assurance
can
I
have
that
every
age
of
the
Church
believes
just
as
the
precedent
did
,
and
no
otherwise
;
when
I
see
they
profess
the
contrary
?
And
if
a
thing
may
be
in
one
age
,
which
was
not
in
a
foregoing
,
then
a
Church
may
deliver
that
as
a
matter
of
faith
at
one
time
,
which
was
never
accounted
so
before
;
by
which
means
the
present
Church
may
oblige
me
to
believe
that
as
a
matter
of
faith
,
which
never
was
so
in
Christs
or
the
Apostles
times
,
and
so
the
infallibility
on
the
account
of
tradition
is
destroyed
.
viz.
that
they
do
not
hold
any
disparate
or
unimplied
points
of
faith
;
but
such
as
are
involved
and
implied
in
the
main
point
.
how
one
point
of
faith
may
be
involved
in
another
,
so
as
to
receive
a
distinct
obligation
to
believe
it
.
that
I
ought
to
consider
what
Logick
tells
us
,
that
the
conclusion
is
in
the
premises
,
which
reflection
will
much
unblunder
my
thoughts
to
unblunder
my
thoughts
de
fide
first
principle
of
controversie
Roman
Church
oral
tradition
that
it
had
not
been
owned
in
all
ages
of
the
Christian
Church
that
the
only
thing
to
be
proved
in
this
case
is
,
that
every
age
of
the
Church
,
and
all
persons
in
it
,
look'd
on
themselves
as
obliged
not
to
vary
in
any
thing
from
the
doctrine
and
practise
of
the
precedent
age
.
reason
,
testimony
he
excepts
the
way
of
reason
demonstrative
medium
the
unconsonancy
of
my
carriage
he
will
yeild
me
the
honour
of
professing
I
have
no
demonstration
but
probability
for
the
ground
of
mine
,
and
he
makes
this
serious
protestation
for
himself
,
that
he
should
esteem
himself
very
dishonest
,
did
he
assert
and
press
on
others
any
argument
for
the
ground
of
his
faith
,
which
he
judged
not
evident
,
that
is
demonstrative
.
that
the
three
angles
of
a
triangle
are
equal
to
two
right
angles
.
particular
problems
sufficient
reason
i.
e.
certain
assent
infallible
cures
that
it
was
impossible
to
demonstrate
this
way
of
oral
tradition
,
unless
it
were
proved
impossible
for
men
not
to
think
themselves
obliged
to
believe
and
do
all
just
as
their
predecessors
did
.
Logick
will
unblunder
my
thoughts
very
honest
take
along
with
me
the
nature
of
the
matter
in
hand
,
the
doctrines
and
practices
spoken
of
,
the
manner
of
delivering
them
,
the
necessary
circumstances
which
give
weight
to
both
whether
men
were
bound
to
wear
their
clothes
,
or
build
houses
,
or
manage
estates
just
as
their
predecessors
did
oral
tradition
that
abstractly
from
Scripture
every
age
is
absolutely
bound
to
believe
just
as
the
precedent
did
,
Christian
faith
conquest
of
as
to
which
that
the
memory
of
it
is
fresh
and
lively
,
though
some
thousand
years
since
;
and
that
the
universal
and
strong
perswasion
of
this
matter
of
fact
was
not
caused
by
Books
,
as
his
History
,
but
by
human
tradition
;
that
the
continuance
of
this
perswasion
was
the
notoriety
of
the
fact
to
the
then
livers
,
which
obliged
them
to
relate
it
to
their
posterity
,
and
that
this
testifying
by
the
fore-fathers
,
was
that
which
obliged
posterity
to
believe
things
,
as
true
because
there
could
be
no
imaginable
motive
why
the
whole
world
should
conspire
to
deceive
them
,
or
be
deceivable
in
their
sensations
;
on
which
principle
it
passed
to
the
next
age
,
and
so
came
down
by
way
of
tradition
to
our
dayes
;
&
the
obligation
to
believe
in
every
age
depended
upon
this
,
that
the
senses
of
the
first
could
not
be
deceived
;
and
having
this
security
in
every
age
,
that
no
one
would
conspire
to
deceive
the
next
,
it
follows
,
that
no
age
could
say
a
former
age
testified
so
,
unless
it
did
;
so
therefore
,
it
follows
demonstratively
,
that
it
was
testified
;
and
so
the
descendents
in
every
age
to
the
very
end
of
the
world
have
the
same
obligation
to
believe
their
immediate
fore-fathers
,
saying
it
was
testified
by
theirs
,
and
so
to
the
very
first
,
who
were
witnesses
of
his
actions
.
he
expects
what
I
will
reply
to
this
discourse
.
bare
veracity
barbarous
Nations
sole
tradition
peoples
ignorance
,
want
of
letters
,
frequent
conquests
succeeding
barbarism
matters
of
fact
Alexanders
conquest
of
Asia
Arrian
Curtias
Popes
infallibility
unless
one
age
conspired
to
deceive
another
,
Roman
Church
unblundring
his
thoughts
Roman
history
those
of
that
age
could
not
but
know
them
,
no
age
since
could
conspire
to
deceive
the
next
.
foresees
,
what
it
is
I
must
be
forced
to
recur
to
,
that
being
baffled
with
his
former
demonstration
,
I
have
no
other
shift
to
betake
my self
to
,
but
to
say
the
case
is
different
between
histories
and
points
of
faith
.
Christian
faith
oral
tradition
Since
the
author
of
this
doctrine
was
the
Son
of
God
,
the
doctrine
it self
so
excellent
,
and
delivered
in
so
publick
a
manner
,
in
the
most
convincing
way
,
by
miracle
and
good
living
,
and
for
so
good
an
end
as
to
save
mens
souls
,
and
that
by
writing
it
in
mens
hearts
,
and
testified
to
others
;
and
all
this
at
a
time
when
men
might
judg
of
the
miracles
and
motives
for
believing
it
;
therefore
since
in
all
these
respects
it
was
incomparably
beyond
the
story
of
conquests
,
it
follows
,
that
in
a
manner
infinitely
greater
must
the
obligation
be
to
believe
Christs
doctrine
,
than
the
Conqerours
victories
,
or
any
history
of
the
like
nature
whatsoever
.
oral
tradition
is
the
only
rule
of
faith
,
Christian
Church
oral
tradition
doctrine
of
Christ
oral
tradition
Christs
doctrine
written
Books
New
Testament
Christian
Church
Trent
;
did
he
never
hear
of
such
a
thing
as
the
Scripture
?
or
is
it
so
hard
to
find
it
New
Testament
Christian
Church
for
moral
instructions
,
and
to
give
precepts
of
good
life
New
Testament
infinite
Being
living
voice
dead
letters
dead
letters
dead
letters
unsenc'd
characters
dead
letters
insignificant
characters
oral
tradition
Christian
Church
this
obligation
in
posterity
to
believe
what
was
delivered
as
matter
of
faith
,
by
the
precedent
age
of
the
Church
viz.
that
otherwise
one
age
must
conspire
to
deceive
the
next
.
Church
:
ergo
minor
proposition
Papal
infallibility
spring
from
the
other
out
how
an
acute
Wit
,
or
great
Scholar
would
discover
the
weakness
of
this
way
.
It
is
hard
to
conceive
what
reason
should
inforce
it
,
but
such
as
proves
the
impossibility
of
the
contrary
;
and
they
have
understandings
of
another
mould
from
others
,
who
can
conceive
it
impossible
men
should
not
think
themselves
obliged
to
believe
and
do
all
just
as
their
predecessors
.
from
the
very
nature
and
constitution
of
the
thing
.
mens
being
obliged
to
cut
their
Beards
,
or
wear
such
Garters
and
Hat-bands
as
their
forefathers
did
.
believing
first
,
and
then
doing
crafty
and
sophistical
dealing
why
I
should
come
to
doubt
of
such
an
obligation
in
posterity
,
to
believe
their
ancestors
in
matters
of
faith
a
strange
distortion
of
human
nature
,
Protestants
temper
which
is
to
chuse
every
one
his
faith
by
his
private
judgement
,
or
wit
,
working
upon
disputable
words
.
distortion
of
human
nature
universal
tradition
that
this
way
is
repugnant
to
common
sense
and
experience
,
and
that
the
Church
of
hath
apparently
altered
from
what
was
the
belief
of
former
ages
.
It
is
to
no
purpose
to
prove
impossibility
of
motion
when
I
see
men
move
;
no
more
is
it
to
prove
that
no
age
of
the
Church
could
vary
from
the
preceding
,
when
we
can
evidently
prove
that
they
have
done
it
.
And
therefore
this
argument
is
intended
only
to
catch
easie
minds
that
care
not
for
a
search
into
the
history
of
the
several
ages
of
the
Church
,
but
had
rather
sit
down
with
a
superficial
subtilty
,
than
spend
time
in
further
enquiries
.
two
things
are
required
ere
I
can
see
that
their
faith
varies
from
the
former
first
to
see
what
their
Church
holds
now
,
and
then
to
see
what
the
former
Church
held
before
;
and
he
kindly
tells
me
,
if
he
sees
any
thing
,
I
see
neither
well
.
I
cannot
see
what
their
present
Church
holds
,
and
therefore
I
cannot
assure
any
what
was
held
before
;
because
,
if
I
renounce
tradition
,
I
take
away
all
means
of
knowing
.
The
reason
why
I
cannot
candidly
see
what
their
Church
holds
now
,
is
,
because
I
cannot
distinguish
between
faith
and
its
explication
,
some
Schoolmen
and
the
Church
.
Invocation
of
Saints
,
Worship
of
Images
,
Communion
in
one
kind
Roman
Catechism
due
honour
be
given
to
Saints
due
honour
these
are
the
opinions
of
Schoolmen
and
private
speculators
,
and
not
the
doctrine
of
their
Church
.
School-men
,
private
Opinators
But
I
cannot
see
what
their
Church
held
formerly
neither
.
if
I
question
tradition
,
I
question
whether
there
be
any
doctrine
delivered
,
and
so
any
Fathers
.
Roman
Church
superficial
subtilty
is
that
which
is
wholly
built
on
the
nature
of
things
superficial
What
do
I
think
Controversie
is
I
deal
plainly
with
you
you
may
take
it
to
be
an
art
of
talking
,
and
I
think
you
do
so
,
though
you
will
not
profess
it
;
but
I
take
it
to
be
a
noble
science
.
art
of
talking
he
takes
it
to
be
a
noble
science
that
he
goes
upon
certain
principles
,
and
we
do
not
.
clearing
method
oral
tradition
strangely
roving
from
the
mark
there
is
not
a
tittle
in
it
parallel
to
his
nay
,
that
he
never
saw
in
his
life
more
absurdities
couched
in
fewer
words
.
who
still
perches
on
the
specifical
nature
of
things
,
and
never
flags
below
the
sphere
of
science
.
eighthly
and
lastly
i.
e.
full
of
absurdities
rambling
Chimerical
argument
no
two
pieces
of
which
hang
together
with
themselves
,
or
any
thing
else
.
if
we
can
evidently
prove
,
that
there
have
been
alterations
in
the
Church
,
then
it
is
to
no
purpose
to
prove
that
impossible
which
we
see
actually
done
.
And
this
appears
not
only
because
the
Scripture
supposes
a
degeneracy
in
the
Christian
Church
,
which
could
never
be
,
if
every
age
of
the
Church
did
infallibly
believe
and
practise
as
the
precedent
up
to
Christs
time
did
;
but
because
we
can
produce
clear
evidence
that
some
things
are
delivered
by
the
present
Church
,
which
must
be
brought
in
by
some
age
since
the
time
of
Christ
;
for
which
I
refer
the
Reader
to
what
I
had
said
about
communion
in
one
kind
,
invocation
of
Saints
,
and
worship
of
Images
:
In
all
which
,
I
had
proved
evidently
that
they
were
not
in
use
in
some
ages
of
the
Christian
Church
;
and
it
is
as
evident
that
these
are
delivered
by
the
present
Church
,
and
therefore
this
principle
must
needs
be
false
.
I
would
tell
him
first
what
evidence
means
,
whether
a
strong
fancy
,
or
a
demonstration
Incomparably
argued
why
,
see
we
not
the
place
?
does
it
evidently
speak
of
faith
,
or
manners
;
the
Vniversal
Church
,
or
particular
persons
?
but
be
it
in
faith
,
be
it
universal
,
does
it
suppose
this
degeneracy
already
past
,
which
is
only
proper
to
your
purpose
,
or
yet
to
come
?
That
is
,
does
it
say
there
must
be
a
total
Apostacy
in
faith
before
the
year
Alas
,
he
had
forgot
this
.
Catholick
Church
Idea
of
Antichristianism
oral
tradition
I
single
them
out
,
and
print
them
at
the
end
of
this
Answer
,
(
i.
e.
Fiat
Lux
to
excuse
Catholick
Religion
against
the
opposition
of
several
Adversaries
.
Catholick
Religion
to
excuse
Catholick
Religion
that
faith
is
firm
and
constant
,
though
all
his
talk
for
it
be
miserably
weak
:
i.
e.
as
often
as
they
dispute
,
they
are
beyond
the
business
,
in
reading
controversies
,
we
see
not
so
much
the
nature
of
the
faith
,
as
the
wit
of
him
who
opposes
or
defends
it
.
T.
C.
I.
S.
victory
over
me
that
his
Catholick
Gentleman
went
quite
besides
his
business
,
that
he
built
upon
indefensible
principles
,
that
his
theological
ratiocination
was
indeed
pretty
,
but
too
weak
to
hold
.
is
a
pretty
theological
ratiocination
;
and
that
your
answer
is
not
unwitty
:
but
though
that
way
will
not
hold
,
another
will
.